High Commitment, High Performance

Subtitle:
How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
Author:
Michael Beer
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Hardcover

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High Commitment, High Performance

Short description

How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization

Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to weave together a complete system that includes top-to-bottom communication, organization design, HR policies, and leadership transformation process, and outlines what practitioners must do in HR, structure, systems, goals, culture, and strategy to create high-performance organizations.

Michael Beer (Concord, MA) is Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and Chairman of True Point, a research-based consultancy.

Long description

This book shows how to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization. Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to weave together a complete system that includes top-to-bottom communication, organization design, HR policies, and leadership transformation process, and outlines what practitioners must do in HR, structure, systems, goals, culture, and strategy to create high-performance organizations. Michael Beer (Concord, MA) is Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and Chairman of True Point, a research-based consultancy.

Product details

Contributor:
Russell A. Eisenstat
Publisher:
JOSSEY-BASS
ISBN:
9780787972288
Publication date:
August 2009
Additional format:
Contains Hardback and CD-ROM
Length:
238mm
Width:
182mm
Thickness:
35mm
Weight:
758g
Edition:
New title
Pages:
391
Illustrations:
Illustrated
Readership:
Tertiary education; Professional & scholarly

Table of contents

  • Preface. 1. Introduction. Part I: The High Commitment, High Performance Organization. 2. Pillars of High Commitment and Performance Organizations. 3. Principled Choice and Discipline Are Essential. 4. Building the High Commitment, High Performance System. Part II: What Stands in the Way. 5. Hidden Barriers to Sustained High Commitment and High Performance. Part III: Leadership and Learning Change Levers. 6. Change Lever 1: Lead a Collective Learning Process. 7. Change Lever 2: Enable Truth to Speak to Power. Part IV: Organization Design Change Levers. 8. Change Lever 3: Manage Organizational Performance Strategically. 9. Change Lever 4: Organize for Performance and Commitment. 10. Change Lever 5: Develop Human and Social Capital. Part V: Transforming the Organization. 11. Embrace E and O Change Strategies. 12. Epilogue. Endnotes. Acknowledgments. The Author.

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