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- Argues that traditional management practices are preventing businesses from being agile, and presents solutions for changing them, allowing businesses to be ready for change
- Blends theory and practice
- Presents a practical, actionable framework and easy-to-read guidance
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Agile Enterprise
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Myths Blocking Agile Performance
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The Right Culture for Agile Performance
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Back Matter
About this book
Baker takes on eight dysfunctional people management practices originating from the scientific management and offers practical solutions for changing these practices and increasing organizational agility.
Agile is the new black. Every business now has to be adaptive, nimble and ready to pivot – managers have to be comfortable with ambiguity and constantly ready for change. And yet…
While agility is regarded as essential for competitive advantage, most organizations are still unthinkingly applying people management practices, rooted in Frederick Taylor’s scientific management philosophy of the early 20th century, designed to ensure consistency and efficiency on production lines but which actively prevent the sort of creativity and flexibility needed in the modern workplace.
100 years of scientific management has led to the creation of eight performance myths. Myths that impede the agility necessary to compete in the age of the knowledge worker but which are so instinctively embedded in management psyche that they go unchallenged despite the fact that the changing world of work has rendered them dysfunctional and counterproductive.Through case studies and examples Baker demonstrates how the right workplace culture for promoting and applying agile decision-making consists of eight values shared by employer and employee – values that are polar opposite of the values and assumptions of traditional management styles. A new psychological contract that enables the collaborative working relationship necessary for agility to flourish.
Authors and Affiliations
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WINNERS-at-WORK Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia
Tim Baker
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance Management for Agile Organizations
Book Subtitle: Overthrowing The Eight Management Myths That Hold Businesses Back
Authors: Tim Baker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40153-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40152-2Published: 22 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82043-9Published: 03 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40153-9Published: 14 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 228
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Resource Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Organization, Innovation/Technology Management