Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations - Decentralization 2.0

"Although going against the grain, the history of decentralization shows that early adopters reaped phenomenal benefits in terms of company morale and economic performance. What is commonly understood by decentralization originates in the conventional command-and-control paradigm, defined as Decentralization 1.0. To cope with the world's exploding complexity, some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of organization by adopting a new kind of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm - hence the term Decentralization 2.0. This refers to organizations consisting of autonomous groups facilitated by an enabling support organization. To keep these high-trust, spirit-driven organizations together, a new kind of deep leadership is practiced by them. More than half the book consists of a number of extensive case studies, covering the historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization. Together with the relevant theory, these case studies ensures that Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations is useful for both management scholars and practitioners"--

List of contents

Prologue 1. Complexity is a Consequence of Living in a Sandpile World 2. Only Variety Absorbs Complexity 3. Top-down Decentralization and the Folly of Power First Story: The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 4. Going Against the Grain: Aborted Bottom-up Decentralization Second Story: The Durham Coal Miners 5. Common-sense Decentralization by Working with Human Nature - Not Against It Third Story: Svenska Handelsbanken 6. Deep Leadership Creates the Social Glue Keeping High-variety Organizations Together Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: G. Broekstra, Gerrit Broekstra
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137414700
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41470-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, B, Planning, Leadership, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Transportation, Business & management, Electrical Engineering, International business, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, business strategy, Industries, Management & management techniques, Management science, Industry & industrial studies, International business enterprises, Business Strategy and Leadership, Palgrave Business & Management Collection