http://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Organization-Francis-J-Gouillart/dp/0070244928
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This upbeat management primer views the corporation as a living organism complete with body, mind and spirit. The key to a company's successful adaptation and growth is the unified pursuit of common goals, achieved by keeping in sync its technology, "work architecture," reward structure and other "biocorporate" systems. Using numerous case histories involving DuPont, Philips, Citibank, Ashland Oil, Rolls-Royce, Texas retailer HEB and other firms, the authors, executives with Gemini, a global consulting firm, explain how to harness motivation by creating a large number of "natural work teams," small groups of multitalented people empowered with the authority to take action. Instead of a "Pavlovian," carrot-and-stick reward system, they recommend instituting "individual learning" by linking rewards to an employee's expanding opportunities, skills and participation. This is a visionary yet practical blueprint for corporate restructuring and renewal. 50,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
Transformation isn't just the latest buzzword. It's a necessity for today's corporations-essential to the success of every globally challenged organization. That's why an impressive list of companies like British Telecom, DuPont, Bell Atlantic, and Rolls Royce have looked to leading business healers James Kelly and Francis Gouillart to diagnose, treat, and cure the disease that had infected their operations. Here, for the first time, these influential authors reveal their revolutionary prescription for corporate metamorphosis. Radical in vision, dramatic in scope, resounding in impact, this progressive methodology helps ailing firms tap new sources of business growth via well-orchestrated, all-encompassing change.
"Transforming the Organization" is among the first books to use the concept of "corporate DNA," although the author doesn't use that term. The book may be most valuable for the author's development of organic design principles, such as corporate nervous system. My major disagreement is that, despite an organic orientation, the author's approach becomes a little mechanical, as with his insistence on 12 corporate chromosomes. All in all, the book is well worth the read
http://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Organization-Social-Technical-Howard-Oden/dp/1567202268/ref=sid_dp_dp
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is a very thorough book on organizational transformation. Oden provides excellent perspectives on what needs to be analyzed...For the individual engaged in organization change and for those who must manage the efforts of those engaged in change, this is must reading.”–Human Resource Management.
“...offers a clear goal for transformation, an excellent description of transformation leadership, and a model of the change process....Highly recommended.”–Stern's Management Review/Stern's Sourcefinder
Product Description
The rapidly increasing rate of world change demands not just incremental change that organizations have used in the past, but fast, radical alterations of their strategy, culture, structure, and processes. Nothing less than transformation will do, says Dr. Oden--a complex, continuing effort that may be closer to revolution than evolution. Oden lays it out in his customarily clear, programmatic way. He covers actions that must precede the initiation of a transformation; guidance on how to perform the technical, social, and behavioral tasks; and the actions required to wrap up and integrate everything into a complete, workably transformed organization. His book provides a clear goal for the transformation, an excellent description of transformational leadership, and a simple, powerful model of the process. The result is essential reading for upper management in private and public sector organizations and for their colleagues in the academic community.
