Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation

Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation (Complexity and Emergence in Organizations)
By Ralph Stacey

Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2001-03-29
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 041524918X
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780415249188

This work demonstrates how the 'knowledge economy' can be seen in a new light when considered from a complexity perspective. It stresses the importance of relationships as a source of - and influence on - information and knowledge creation.

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The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders

The Global Market: Developing a Strategy to Manage Across Borders (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
By John A. Quelch, Rohit Deshpande

Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2004-05-31
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787968579
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787968571

The twin forces of ideological change and the technology revolution make globalization the single most important issue facing executives today. But many companies who have developed a presence in the global market now face the challenges inherent in creating a multinational presence with the demands of the "unglobal consumer" who does not have a "one size fits all" need. Here, HBS Professors John Quelch and Deshpande bring together 13 Harvard Business School professors to discuss these and other problems and benefits encountered by executives in global markets. Topics to be discussed include: operating costs of global advertising and marketing services, global product standards; managing global supply chains; global account management; global brands; global knowledge sharing and performance drivers; managing global customers; and social marketing for global economic development.

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The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results

The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development Into Business Results
By Calhoun W. Wick, Roy V. H. Pollock, Andrew McK. Jefferson, Richard D. Flanagan

Publisher: Pfeiffer
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-04-14
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787982547
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787982546

The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning presents an innovative approach that accelerates the transfer and application of corporate learning. The Six Disciplines provides the definitive road map and tools for optimizing the business impact of leadership and management training, sales, quality, performance improvement, and individual development programs. This important book presents the theories and techniques behind the approach and includes expert advice for bridging the learning-doing gap. The authors recommendations are illustrated with dozens of real-life examples from successful companies on the cutting edge of results-driven educational performance.

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The Handbook of Multisource Feedback: The Comprehensive Resource for Designing and Implementing MSF Processes

The Handbook of Multisource Feedback: The Comprehensive Resource for Designing and Implementing MSF Processes (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
by David W. Bracken, Carol W. Timmreck, Allan H. Church

Publisher: Pfeiffer
Number Of Pages: 608
Publication Date: 2000-12-12
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0787952869
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780787952860

The Comprehensive Resource for Designing and Implementing MSG Processes.

As organizations strive to make the best possible decisions on critical issues such as compensation, succession planning, staffing, and outplacement, they have increasingly turned to multisource feedback (MSF) for answers. But while use of MSF (or 360-degree) systems has proliferated rapidly, understanding of its complexities has not and many companies are moving forward with MSF amid a dangerous void of systematic research and discussion on this powerful process.

The Handbook of Multisource Feedback provides the most comprehensive compendium available of current knowledge and practice in MSF. The volume's diverse group of contributors which includes renowned academics, practitioners, and applied researchers represents the acknowledged thought leaders in the current and future practice of MSF. Through their multiple perspectives, they identify best practices in the design and implementation of MSF processes and offer key guidelines for decision making when using MSF.

The book offers solid grounding in the nuts and bolts of MSF data collection and reporting, providing a process model that leads the reader step-by-step through each phase of an MSF system. It details the developmental and decision-making uses of multisource feedback, describing MSF applications for improving executive development, organization development and change, teams, performance management, personnel decision, and more. And it addresses the realities of system forces that influence MSF processes, including legal, ethical, and cross-cultural issues.

The Handbook of Multisource Feedback will provide an ideal one-stop reference for practitioners, researchers, consultants, and organizational clients who need to understand the challenges of using multisource feedback.

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Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization
By Lowell L. L Bryan, Claudia L. I. Joyce

Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 300
Publication Date: 2007-05-29
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 0071490825
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780071490825

Based on a decade of exclusive research, Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce of McKinsey & Company have come up with a simple yet revolutionary conclusion: Your workforce is the key to growth in the 21st century. By tapping into their underutilized talents, knowledge, and skills you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the interdepartmental complexities and barriers that prevent real achievements and profits.

This can only be accomplished through organizational design and redesign. That's the new model for survival in the modern, digital, global economy. With the right design, your organization will have the capabilities to pursue whatever strategy is necessary to compete on any scale, react to any market change, leverage any opportunity, and sail past the competition.

In Mobilizing Minds, the authors distill their research into seven strategic ideas that shatter the complexity frontiers, have the potential to unleash enormous profits, and enable long-term success for every company. Bryan and Joyce outline innovative principles that enable corporations to:

• Manage complexity, bureaucracy, and redundancy
• Use hierarchical authority to strengthen the authority of key managers and drive performance
• Deliver operating earnings while implementing wealth-creation strategies
• Allow formal networks, talent, and knowledge marketplaces to work in a large company
• Motivate and reward wealth-creating behavior
• Pursue organizational design as a corporate strategy
• Increase worker satisfaction

It is imperative for corporations to put the same energy used for new products and processes into organizational design. That's where the money is. That's where the opportunities lie. That's the key to surviving and prospering in the 21st century.

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Handbook of Competence and Motivation

Handbook of Competence and Motivation
By Andrew J. Elliot, Carol S. Dweck

Publisher: The Guilford Press
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 2005-04-04
ISBN-10/ ASIN: 1593851235
ISBN-13/ EAN: 9781593851231

This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.

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Managing for Knowledge - HR's Strategic Role ebook

Managing for Knowledge - HR's Strategic Role
by Christina Evans

ISBN: 0750655666
Author: Christina Evans
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Whilst there are many books on knowledge management there are few aimed directly at HR practitioners and the critical role that they can play in building a knowledge-centric culture.

This practical book draws on the author's own experience, as well as that of leading-edge Human Resource and Knowledge Management practitioners (including Linda Holbeche, Elizabeth Lank, and David Snowden), each of whom recognise that building a knowledge-centric culture cannot be achieved through technology alone.

It covers areas such as:

• Defining the key ingredients of a knowledge-centric culture
• The changing structures, roles and responsibilities needed to create a knowledge-centric culture
• HR's unique contribution to building a knowledge-centric culture, together with practical steps for getting started on the KM journey and for keeping the momentum going
• Tools and techniques for: opening up a dialogue about why knowledge management is crucial for business and personal success; knowledge mapping; encouraging and facilitating knowledge sharing, as well as ways of identifying key knowledge players
• How to help your organisation reframe its assumptions about learning in the knowledge economy
• How to ensure that your HR practices are knowledge aligned
• Outline the strategic and practical elements of HR's involvement in knowledge management
• Features contributions from Dave Snowden and Elizabeth Lank
• Practical case studies to help create an organizational culture that knows how to mobilize and leverage its knowledge

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