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This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments. The book provides examples of how this can be achieved by means of various organizational change initiatives, leadership strategies, re-engineering, innovation in products and processes, the use of information and communication technology, reshaping learning orientations, and more. As these topics are supported by research and case studies situated in different sectors and countries across Asia, the book will provide a useful resource for a broad readership including: management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.
List of contents
Theory of Flexible Systems Management.- Telecommunicating and Co-working Communities: Contributing to Individual and Organizational Flexibility.- Exploration of Holistic Learning in Different Contexts.- Flexible Distribution Strategies in Network Marketing Companies.- Flexibility in Social Sustainability: An Evidence from Indian Manufacturing.- Facilitating Spirituality at Workplace: A Study of Organizational Practices.- Ethical Mindsets: Learning from Cultural Comparisons.- Family Friendly Programs and Work-Family Conflict among Indonesian HE Employees.- The Challenges of Strategic HRM Programs in the Thai Higher Education Sector.- An Analysis of Social Capital within Networks as Pathways to Capacity Building for Women's Empowerment in Myanmar.- Agility in Competency Building - A Pedagogical approach with a Case Illustration from the IT Industry.- Strategies for Building Human Capital in the Asian Finance Services Industry.- Rethinking Business Models for Flexible Configuration:Lesson from Jugad? Innovations in BOP Markets.- Strategically Flexible Capacity Building Driving Emerging Markets Internationalization.- Global Competitiveness of the Informal Economy Organizations.- Hierarchy of Continuity and Change Forces of International Technology Strategy.- An Insight into Competence Level of Actors and E-governance Performance.- Open Innovation: A Flexible Practice for Intellectual Property Management in Pharmaceutical Sector.- Impact of Product Patent Regime on Pharmaceutical Companies in India.- Investment Patterns and Quarterly Trading Strategies of Indian Mutual Funds Industry: A Flexible Systems Management Perspective.- Hierarchical Relationship Models of Strategic Crystal Elements of Telecom Service Business in India.
About the author
Prof. Sushil (Series Editor) is the AbdulazizAlsagar chair professor (professor of strategic, flexible systems and technology management), at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has pioneered the area of ‘Flexible Systems Management’ and made original contributions to the field of knowledge in the form of interpretive approaches in management such as SAP-LAP models/linkages, Total Interpretive Structural Modeling, and Interpretive Ranking Process. He has evolved the concept and framework of ‘Flowing Stream Strategy’ as strategic flexibility to manage continuity and change.
Dr. Julia Connell is an adjunct Professor of Management, Curtin Business School, Curtin University and Director of Researcher Development at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Her research include precarious work, organizational effectiveness, job quality, human resource development and more. She has published widely in a rangeof international journals such as the International Journal of HRM, the International Journal of Manpower, Personnel Review and Management Decision.
John Burgess is a Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His research interests include working hours, employment relations, job quality, work and health, and employment programs at multinational companies. John is an Editorial Board Member of the Australian Bulletin of Labour; Australian Journal of Labour Economics; Economic and Labour Relations Review; and Human Resource Management Journal. He has published widely and co-edited special issues for many journals including: the International Journal of Human Resource Management; International Journal of Manpower and Personnel Review.
Summary
This book focuses on the challenges of capacity building for flexible work organizations in Asia, and demonstrates how business enterprises practice reactive flexible capacity (in the form of adaptiveness and responsiveness) to cope with changing and uncertain business environments. The book provides examples of how this can be achieved by means of various organizational change initiatives, leadership strategies, re-engineering, innovation in products and processes, the use of information and communication technology, reshaping learning orientations, and more. As these topics are supported by research and case studies situated in different sectors and countries across Asia, the book will provide a useful resource for a broad readership including: management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.
