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Book SynopsisHow to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to weave together a complete system that includes top-to-bottom communication, organization design, HR policies, and leadership transformation process, and outlines what practitioners must do in HR, structure, systems, goals, culture, and strategy to create high-performance organizations.
Trade Review"Beer, author of
High Commitment, High Performance, a book on business ethics recently published by Josey-Bass, posited three core reasons why Wall Street failed so badly in the fall of 2008: The firms lacked a higher purpose, lacked a clear strategy, and mismanaged their risk." (
Business Week, August 17, 2009)
Table of ContentsPreface xi
1 Introduction 1
Part One: The High Commitment, High Performance Organization 17
2 Pillars of High Commitment, High Performance Organizations 19
3 Principled Choice and Discipline are Essential 51
4 Building the High Commitment, High Performance System 79
Part Two: What Stands in the Way 91
5 Hidden Barriers to Sustained High Commitment and High Performance 93
Part Three: Leadership and Learning Change Levers 119
6 Lead a Collective Learning Process 121
7 Enable Truth to Speak to Power 157
Part Four: Organization Design Change Levers 187
8 Manage Organizational Performance Strategically 189
9 Organize for Performance and Commitment 223
10 Develop Human and Social Capital 255
Part Five: Transforming the Organization 293
11 Embrace E and O Change Strategies 295
12 Epilogue 327
End Notes 333
Acknowledgments 369
Index 373
The Author 391
