1st Edition

The High Performance Organization

By Linda Holbeche Copyright 2005
    462 Pages
    by Routledge

    462 Pages
    by Routledge

    Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively.

    The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent.

    This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.

    Part One - BUILDING DYNAMIC STABILITY
    Section 1 - The High Performance Organisation
    Ch1: Towards the High Performance Organisation
    Ch2: Buliding Culture
    Ch3: Can culture be deliberately changed?
    Ch4: Analysing Cultures
    Ch5: Designing the High Performance Organisation

    Section 2 - Creating Dynamic Stability
    Ch6: Creating a 'change-able' organisation
    Ch7: Creating a knowledge-rich context for innovation

    Section 3 - The Boundaryless Organisation
    Ch8: Working accross Boundaries
    Ch9: Crossing boundaries of time and place

    Section 4 - High Performance Management Practices
    Ch10: Stimulating People to Sustainable Levels of High performance
    Ch11: Performance Management
    Ch12: The Role of HR in building culture

    Part two - BUILDING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS
    Ch13: Becoming a Great Place to Work
    Ch14: Careers and work/life balance
    Ch15: Key Skills to Survive and Thrive in Changing Organisations
    Ch16: Becoming a values-based organisation
    Ch17: Leading for Sustainable High Performance

    Conclusion

    Biography

    Linda Holbeche