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Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Beer serves as the Director of Nonviolence International, an innovative and respected Washington, DC based nonprofit promoting nonviolent approaches to international conflicts. Since 1991 he has worked with NVI to serve marginalized people who seek to use nonviolent tactics often in difficult and dangerous environments. This includes diaspora activists, multinational coalitions, global social movements, as well as within countries including: Myanmar, Tibet, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Palestine, Cambodia, East Timor, Iran, India, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and the United States. Michael Beer has a special expertise in supporting movements against dictators and in support of global organizing for justice, environment, and peace. Michael co-parents two teenagers with his patient life partner, Latanja. Klappentext How 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. Zusammenfassung This resource outlines how to create value for a company through strategic human resource management. It focuses on three issues outside of the typical HRM arena: 1) How to help managers create and sustain outstanding performance in their organizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 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 ...
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Preface 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
About the author
Michael A. Beer serves as the Director of Nonviolence International, an innovative and respected Washington, DC based nonprofit promoting nonviolent approaches to international conflicts. Since 1991 he has worked with NVI to serve marginalized people who seek to use nonviolent tactics often in difficult and dangerous environments. This includes diaspora activists, multinational coalitions, global social movements, as well as within countries including: Myanmar, Tibet, Indonesia, Russia, Thailand, Palestine, Cambodia, East Timor, Iran, India, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and the United States. Michael Beer has a special expertise in supporting movements against dictators and in support of global organizing for justice, environment, and peace. Michael co-parents two teenagers with his patient life partner, Latanja.
