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The Dynamic Workplace Present Structure and Future Redesign

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Seth Allcorn

Foreword by Michael Diamond

Book Code: Q619

ISBN: 1-56720-619-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-619-7

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208 pages, figures

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/2003

List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: 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.
Allcorn advocates a shared theoretical perspective that is clear and comprehensive. His theory explains organizational life, encompassing four types of work experience: chaotic, bureaucratic, charismatic, and balanced. He proposes an organizational design that eschews positions of authority and power and eliminates severe, often hindering bureaucracy. Clear and comprehensible without being simplistic, the book offers insights into how organizations actually function and proposes ways to intervene when organizations grow stale, become self-defeating in their missions, or develop into hostile environments for their employees. The insights and ideas presented here are of considerable and enduring importance to corporate trainers, consultants, group process experts, governmental agencies and entities, executives at all levels, academics, and students of organizational life and its various processes.

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

LC Card Number: 2002030334

LCC Class: HF5547

Dewey Class: 331


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