Creating an "Open Book" Organization: Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners - Hardcover

McCoy, Thomas J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814402933 ISBN 13: 9780814402931

Publisher: Amacom Books, 1996

Synopsis

Over 11,000 copies sold.This is the second book in the Applied Employee Engagement series.An "Open-Book" organization refers to the transformation of the traditional employee/employer relationship into a mutual partnership, where everyone is focused on the success of the business and rewarded based on results. This book delivers the partnership model, the practical framework and the tools that are guaranteed to transform your company into a thriving culture of partnership with greater profits and satisfaction for all. It provides a practical, step-by-step approach to developing a high-involvement, high-performance culture. Filled with implementation tools, it aims to educate and empower employees so they understand the business and their roles, and engage them with incentive plans.

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About the Author

Thomas McCoy is the President of the Employee Engagement Institute, a training and consulting firm that helps clients to maximize profit by tuning their companies to perform at full potential. Since the release of his groundbreaking book "Compensationand Motivation" in 1993, he has been a thought leader on the topic of organizational culture and the use of compensation and employee engagement to improve performance and profit.  He has over 35 years experience developing high-involvement, high-performance cultures for over 200 companies in the United States, Europe and South America.  He developed and taught a two-day seminar on "How To Develop a High Performance Culture" at George Washington University. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, quoted in Newsweek, and nominated for SHRM's Michael J. Losey award for his work in the field of Human Resources. Mr. McCoy is a member of MENSA. He holds a Lean/Six Sigma certificate from Villanova University, a coaching certification from the Johnston Institute, and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. He is avolunteer board member for Support KC, a non-profit that provides business disciplines that help other non-profit organizations achieve their mission.He and his wife Cathy are parents of two young men.

Review

Mr. McCoy's approach to the concept of an open-book organization is so revelatory that you must read it cover to cover and in the order presented to get the full benefit. So be prepared to hunker down and wade through it all. The effort will be well worth it, plus the many case studies and examples will help you immensely in seeing the "big picture."

McCoy defines and provides step-by-step guidelines for establishing an effective open-book organization. His original models; the E4-R4 Partnership Checklist, the Education Onion, the Line-of-Sight Linkage Tree, and the Reward System Selector are extremely innovative tools for guiding managers and employees in breaking out of the "us versus them" mentality with which most organizations are plagued. McCoy's premise is that all the change processes in the world are useless unless specific employee expectations and reactions are taken into consideration up front.

These are the special elements of McCoy's thesis that promise to help transform companies into really effective employee-management partnerships with greater profits and satisfaction for all. -- Business Book Review. Volume 13, Number 4

About this edition

• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0814402933
• ISBN 13: 9780814402931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300