Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations

Contributors from the Center for Effective Organizations: Susan G. Cohen, Gerald E. Ledford, Jr., Morgan W. McCall, Jr., Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., and Susan A. Mohrman.

Perhaps the most thorough look at emerging organizational designs and management techniques written to date. Based on research conducted at USC's Center for Effective Organization, this volume tells how to create a company with high levels of employee involvement and identifies revolutionary new management techniques. Knowledge organizations, senior team management, distributed staffs, and virtual networks are among the many forward-looking organizational forms and phenomena explained and explored. Shows precisely how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

EDWARD E. LAWLER III is founding director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, where he is professor of management and organization in the business school. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-two books, including The Ultimate Advantage (1992) and Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (1992), both from Jossey-Bass.