Beyond Workplace 2000: Essential Strategies for the New American Corporation - Softcover

Boyett, Joseph H.; Boyett, Jimmie T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452271959 ISBN 13: 9780452271951

Publisher: Plume, 1996

Synopsis

The author of Workplace 2000 provides a new blueprint for the companies of tomorrow, along with survival information for working Americans who find themselves at the center of change. Beyond Workplace 2000 explains how the company of the future will be less mechanistic and more organic, interacting continuously with its environment and its customers and thriving on chaos and non-stop change.

About this title

From Library Journal

Thoroughly researched with copious notes and an excellent bibliography, this sequel to the author's Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping American Business (LJ 1/91) is an important contribution to management literature. Boyett carefully examines current management techniques and philosophies, including such trendy practices as Total Quality Management and "family-friendly" environments, and finds them wanting. He exposes hype and hypocrisy in today's organizations and suggests concrete ways to humanize the workplace and still have an organization that successfully meets the challenges of increasingly competitive environments. This book should find a wide audience among leaders of many different kinds of organizations. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly

After sweeping layoffs and draconian downsizings, has the reengineering of America's corporations produced a leaner, tougher business environment? According to the Boyetts (Workplace 2000), "America's workplace revolution... has only just begun." The authors assert that formidable changes in American society, including the impact of women and minorities in the workforce and the need for educational and training programs, will compel managers to develop new procedures to cope with economies in flux. The authors also investigate such topics as the impact of technology, the importance of core competencies, cooperation among employees and a sensitivity to products consumers actually want and need. Providing numerous case studies (e.g., Corning, Wal-Mart), this is a useful study of business leadership in a period of change.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452271959
• ISBN 13: 9780452271951
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320