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The Dynamic Workplace: Present Structure and Future Redesign

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Publisher Comments:

The complexity and dynamism of organizations make them difficult to understand and manage. This book presents the workings and designs of organizations and identifies the types of problems encountered by organizational workers. Allcorn provides an essential focus on dynamic workplace theory, questioning the current and future value of today's bureaucratic, hierarchic organizational structure.

Synopsis:

Allcorn provides an essential focus on dynamic workplace theory, questioning the current and future value of today's bureaucratic, hierarchic organizational structure.
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About the Author

SETH ALLCORN is a principal of DyAD, a consulting firm specializing in organizational development and management, in Asheville, North Carolina. Author of eight books on management and organizational life and numerous articles, he holds an MBA and a doctorate in Higher and Adult Education. His most recent books include Managing People During Stressful Times (1997), The Human Cost of a Management Failure (1996), and Anger in the Workplace (1994).
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Table of Contents

Illustrations

Foreword by Michael Diamond

Preface

Introduction

Know Thy Workplace

Dynamic Workplace Theory

The Elemental Forces of Dynamic Workplace Theory

Transitional Organizational Space

Finding Stability in the Workplace

Managing and Consulting Using Dynamic Workplace Theory

The Search for the Organizational Solution to the Industrial Revolution

Ring Organization Design

An Analysis of Dynamic Workplace Theory and Ring Organization Design

In Conclusion

References

Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780313039591
Subtitle:
Present Structure and Future Redesign
Publisher:
Praeger Publishers
Author:
Allcorn, Seth
Subject:
Management
Publication Date:
20030228
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Pages:
208
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