Recreating the Workplace: The Pathway to High Performance Work Systems (The Exective Breakthrough Series) - Softcover

Rayner, Steven R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939246325 ISBN 13: 9780939246328

Publisher: Oliver Wight Ltd Pub, 1993

Synopsis

Advance Praise for Recreating the Workplace "Creating a team-driven culture, focused on results, will yield a significant competitive advantage for companies whose leaders have the courage and tenacity to embark on this path. Recreating the Workplace is an exceptional resource that provides a roadmap filled with practical, actionable ideas and information." — Barry F. Culkin, President, Boston Whaler "…Recreating the Workplace is well worth the read.… It provides a wealth of material for managers and leaders alike. The Transformation Pathway will surely be the approach adopted in most organizations to meet the changes that will increasingly confront us in the years to come." — Alan E. Williams, Training & Development Manager, Monsanto Europe "An excellent resource, full of history, examples, and practical guidelines for those just starting or those well on their way to redesigning their organizations to High Performing Work Systems." — Barbara Feldman, Manager, Organization Development, Coming, Inc. "Recreating the Workplace applies timeless principles of successful change implementation to the art of launching team-based organizations." — Jeanne Hazell and Bob Willard, Leadership Development Empowered Team, IBM Canada "Straight talk about high performance teams. Recreating the Workplace is filled with a multitude of experiences from a cross-section of American businesses that have embarked on the path of high performance systems. More importantly, Rayner outlines what to expect if work continues to be designed in a traditional manner in the rapidly changing business environment. If high performance teams are in your future, then read this book." — Bruce Ellis, Manager, AT&T University of Sales Excellence

About this title

From the Publisher

Rayner demonstrates how a traditional company can become a highly flexible, agile organization by using an innovative proven approach--the Transformation Pathway. He details the six phases of this technique, focusing on the critical success factors and common pitfalls of each. Features fascinating inside accounts from enterprises that have used this approach along with invaluable advice on how to influence the direction of your firm, select the right types of teams, create the reality of continual renewal and much more.

From the Inside Flap

Your people...the only true competitive advantage. It’s a commonly heard phrase but an extremely difficult concept to translate into business reality. Now, with an innovative, proven approach called the "Transformation Pathway," Steven Rayner shows companies how to continuously improve performance by creating a High Performance Work System. Used in companies across North America and Europe, the six-phase Transformation Pathway helps companies recognize, overcome, and "manage through" the most difficult aspects of this vital challenge. The six phases — Leadership, Commitment, Communication, Redesign, Reinforcement, and Renewal — show how a traditional company can become a highly flexible, agile organization. With the continually faster pace of change and brutal competition, every, company needs to tap the very, best in its people. Rayner shows you how to achieve this goal by following the Transformation Pathway while hurdling over what sometimes seem to be insurmountable obstacles. Along the way you’ll be shown invaluable guidance, firsthand stories from companies that have trailblazed the way, and innovative, creative insights for managers, executives, and team members. In each phase, Rayner focuses on the critical success factors and common pitfalls. Throughout the book you’ll see fascinating, inside stories from companies such as Corning, IBM Canada, Weyerhaeuser, Kodak, Monsanto, and Martin Marietta. Beyond the first-person accounts, Recreating the Workplace gives invaluable advice on:

• how to overcome the three implementation dilemmas
• the critical role of the Champion
• how to influence the direction of your organization
• the Eight Essentials of a major change effort
• how to select the right types of teams for your company
• four different ways to implement High Performance Work Systems
• how to deal with "The Dilemma in the Middle" (managers)
• how to create the reality of continual renewal in your company

If your company faces unprecedented challenges and change, Recreating the Workplace will bring new sense of "the possible" to your organization. From the first chapter to the last, it delivers a "people-tested" pathway that can help launch your company onto an upward spiral of higher performance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oliver Wight Ltd Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939246325
• ISBN 13: 9780939246328
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288