Building More Effective Organizations: HR Management and Performance in Practice
Cambridge University Press, 12/13/2007
EAN 9780521868549, ISBN10: 0521868548
Hardcover, 412 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Organizations today are facing heightened challenges in their efforts to perform effectively. These challenges are reflected in the failure of many long-standing organizations and the shortened tenure of senior level executives. There is increasing agreement that the unique competitive advantage organizations have today lies in their people, their human resource management practices and their cultures. All other elements of production can be readily obtained, bought or copied. We are now in the era of human capital; to be successful organizations need to unleash the talents of their people. Fortunately we now have considerable understanding of what high performing organizations look like. However, a large gap still exists between what we know and what managers actually do. With contributions from a team of leading academics and practitioners, Building More Effective Organizations provides an extensive survey of human resource management and the organizational practices associated with the high performance of individuals.
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Building More Effective Organizations
1. Building more effective organizations
a primer Ronald J. Burke and Cary L. Cooper
Part II. Enhancing Individual Health and Performance
2. Enthusiastic employees David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael I. Meltzer
3. Organizational citizenship behavior, transaction cost economics, and the flat world hypothesis Dennis W. Organ and Jay Lee
4. Best practices for work stress and well-being
solutions for human dilemmas in organizations Alvin L. Gibson and James Campbell Quick
5. Enhancing staff well-being for organizational effectiveness Ivan T. Robertson, Gordon Tinline and Susannah Robertson
Part III. Enhancing Organizational Health and Performance
6. Maximizing the value of leadership development
key questions (and some answers) Steve Kerr, Steffen Landauer and Elise Lelon
7. Best practices in building more effective teams Kevin C. Stagl and Eduardo Salas
8. Career development processes in organizations Yehuda Baruch and Sherry E. Sullivan
9. Fostering organizational learning
creating and maintaining a learning culture Silvia Salas and Mary Ann Von Glinow
10. Work-life balance, best practices and healthy organizations
a European perspective Christine Purcell, Suzan Lewis, Janet Smithson and Sue Caton
11. Diversity management practices in leading edge firms Val Singh
Part IV. Transforming Organizations
12. Making it better - achieving outstanding performance in manufacturing organizations John Bessant and Dave Francis
13. Culture change in a financial services organization Emma Preece
14. Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system Barry Colbert, Elizabeth Kurucz and David Wheeler
15. Be in to win - from absence to attendance in Royal Mail Group Stuart Kennedy and Tony McCarthy
16. Transforming a company into a community Philip Mirvis
Index.
'Burke and Cooper, two distinguished and prolific authors in management, have managed to put together an impressive text blending contributions from some of the leading scholars in the academy with contributions from senior executives from the top blue chip corporations. This book is a 'must-read' for both students and practitioners struggling with adapting innovative policies and practices which will enable their organizations to be effective in the 21st century global competitive scene. The book is informative and provocative and is highly recommended.' Simon L. Dolan, Ramon Llull Chair in Human Resource Management, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, and Editor-in-Chief of Cross Cultural Management 'Ronald Burke and Cary Cooper state that the competitive advantage organizations have today lies in their people and their cultures, and I think they are right. In this book they bring together relevant research to back up their statement and I think they did a great job.' Marc J. Schabracq, University of Amsterdam