All Teams are not Created Equal: How Employee Empowerment Really Works

By Eric Trist, Lyman Ketchum, Eric L. Trist

Book Overview

The authors of this book provide a comprehensive diagnosis of the increasing number of problems afflicting the performance of business and other institutions. These problems are defined as people problems′ - springing from the behaviour of those who manage as much as those who do the work. The traditional solutions - coercion, percentage staff reductions across the board, sharing of information, the quick fix′ - are examined and found wanting.

Ketchum and Trist look beyond people problems′ to the organization of work, and concentrate on the mismatch between the characteristics of people and the organizational characteristics of workplaces. From this point they propose their own model of organizational change, backed up

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080394652X
• ISBN13: 9780803946521
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Organization Design

This book is one of the most helpful references I have found on organizational design. The authors write from a perspective of "how to" and years of experience are gleaned from their writings. Designing new plants and re-designing existing organizations are covered with detail. This book is more than how to design teams in an organization. This book is about designing organizations to maximize employee performance.I would especially recommend this book for organization VP's, plant managers, human resouce specialists and line managers.