The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life - Hardcover

Thomas W. Malone

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591391253 ISBN 13: 9781591391258

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2004

Synopsis

For more than a decade, business thinkers have theorized about how technology will change the shape of organizations. In this landmark book, renowned organizational theorist Thomas Malone, codirector of MIT's "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century" initiative, provides the first credible model for actually designing the company of the future. Based on 20 years of groundbreaking research, The Future of Work foresees a workplace revolution that will dramatically change organizational structures and the roles employees play in them. Technological and economic forces make "command and control" management increasingly less useful. In its place will be a more flexible "coordinate and cultivate" approach that will spawn new types of decentralized organizations—from internal markets to democracies to loose hierarchies. These future structures will reap the scale and knowledge efficiencies of large organizations while enabling the freedom, flexibility, and human values that drive smaller firms. This book explores the skills managers will need in a workplace in which the power to decide belongs to everyone.

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Review:

"...[W]e need visionaries like Malone to help push us past the limitations of our conventional thinking." -- Fortune, April 14th 2004

"[T]he argument offered here is uniquely grand." -- Financial Times, April 15th, 2004

"briskly written...insightful" -- USA Today, April 12, 2004

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1591391253
• ISBN 13: 9781591391258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240