The Twenty-First Century Organization: Analyzing Current Trends - Imagining the Future (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

The Twenty-First Century Organization offers fresh insights to help managers, planners, and policy makers in both government and business keep a competitive edge in an uncertain future--and design organizations and institutions that meet tomorrow's realities. The book reveals important trends that are shaping the way organizations are evolving and presents scenarios that these and other events may bring about in the future.

Drawing on his forty plus years of experience in analyzing and helping organizations plan for the future, Guy Benveniste offers a novel framework to help

• meet the challenge of increasing global competition for the new ideas needed to keep organizations innovative
• use today's educated and professional labor pool more effectively
• reduce the social consequences of constant organizational changes
• understand the impact of women on organizational culture and their role in the organization of the future
• recognize the consequences of radical innovations in communication and other information technologies
• discover how private organizations can regulate themselves
• enhance the lives of those within the organization.

Benveniste shows how public and private managers, planners, and anyone interested in the future can develop bold strategies, plans, and policies in order to navigate future environments.

GUY BENVENISTE is professor of planning in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books include Mastering the Politics of Planning (1989) and Professionalizing the Organization (1987), both from Jossey-Bass.