Rekindling Commitment: How to Revitalize Yourself, Your Work, and Your Organization (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Jaffe, Dennis T.; Scott, Cynthia D.; Tobe, Glenn R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555427049 ISBN 13: 9781555427047

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1994

Synopsis

Your roadmap to becoming the CEO of your own job and a leader for organizational change. Argues that the responsibility for renewing the vital bond of trust and commitment is far too important a task to be left to senior management, and shows how you can secure your own future--and the future of your organization--by responding actively, creatively, and effectively to the new demands of the organization in flux. Demonstrates why now--more than ever--we must take responsibility for becoming leaders of change rather than waiting for our organizations to take the first step.

Dennis T. Jaffe, Cynthia D. Scott, and Glenn R. Tobe draw on their extensive consulting experience with corporate executives and managers of such leading organizations as IBM, Pacific Bell, General Mills, The Gap, National Semiconductor, and Estee Lauder to demonstrate how to: * create a new employee empowerment contract * define the values and vision that will guide you to a new sense of mastery in life and work * develop a committed, productive workforce across the organization * invest in the future by designing work groups and systems that develop the new skills and capabilities required in yourself, in others, and in the organization.

About this title

About the Author

GLENN R. TOBE are partners in HeartWork Inc., a San Francisco-based systems-oriented organizational consulting firm that partners with companies to build sustainable employee involvement and commitment. Together they authored Organizational Vision, Values and Mission (1993). Jaffe is the author of Working With The Ones You Love (1990) and Jaffe and Scott co-authored Managing Change and the best-selling Take This Job and Love It (1988).

From the Back Cover

"The most comprehensive roadmap I have seen on how to sustain employee commitment in a workplace of continual change. The book is extremely useful because it is written both to the individual employee who wants to sustain high performance and to the leadership of the organization who want to create an organization that grows continually."--Don Fisher, chairman and CEO, The Gap Inc.This is your roadmap to becoming the CEO of your own job and a leader for organizational change. The authors argue that the responsibility for renewing the vital bond of trust and commitment is far too important a task to be left to senior management, and shows how you can secure your own future--and the future of your organization--by responding actively, creatively, and effectively to the new demands of the organization in flux. Demonstrates why now--more than ever--we must take responsibility for becoming leaders of change rather than waiting for our organizations to take the first step.

From the Inside Flap

Your roadmap to becoming the CEO of your own job and a leader for organizational change. Argues that the responsibility for renewing the vital bond of trust and commitment is far too important a task to be left to senior management, and shows how you can secure your own future--and the future of your organization--by responding actively, creatively, and effectively to the new demands of the organization in flux. Demonstrates why now--more than ever--we must take responsibility for becoming leaders of change rather than waiting for our organizations to take the first step.Dennis T. Jaffe, Cynthia D. Scott, and Glenn R. Tobe draw on their extensive consulting experience with corporate executives and managers of such leading organizations as IBM, Pacific Bell, General Mills, The Gap, National Semiconductor, and Estee Lauder to demonstrate how to: * create a new employee "empowerment" contract * define the values and vision that will guide you to a new sense of mastery in life and work * develop a committed, productive workforce across the organization * invest in the future by designing work groups and systems that develop the new skills and capabilities required in yourself, in others, and in the organization.

Reviews

A number of writers have recently noted the link between trust and organizational vitality. The authors here warn of a crisis of spirit in today's workplace because organizations are failing their workers and losing their trust and commitment. Jaffe and his coauthors head a San Francisco-based organization development firm called HeartWork. They issue a challenge to individuals who are concerned about their own level of commitment to begin the process of change from within and become a leader of change, arguing that "empowerment and change start in the middle and move up the organization rather than from the top down." They next discuss changes that need to be made within the organization and then focus on how individuals and organizations can work together successfully as partners. David Rouse

Jaffe and coauthor/spouse Cynthia Scott are owners of a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in family-run businesses. They have written this work to encourage and assist the average employee to become a change leader in today's uncertain work environment. In this day of reengineering and reductions in force, the authors suggest that individuals who can form and lead small, organized groups focusing on quality will hold the key to change. Not without some risk to the individual, change can commence in the lower ranks, leading to empowerment. Uncertainty is a constant, and the authors suggest ways of dealing with it. They also provide some advice for making the transition: be a partner. With discussions about pyramids vs. circles, empowerment, quality, and personal power, the authors offer little that's new. Appropriate for public libraries.
Randy Abbott, Univ. of Evansville Libs., Ind.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1555427049
• ISBN 13: 9781555427047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274