How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization

Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance organization looks like and provides practitioners with the transformation process to help them get there. Starting with leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to weave together a complete system that includes top-to-bottom communication, organization design, HR policies, and leadership transformation process, and outlines what practitioners must do in HR, structure, systems, goals, culture, and strategy to create high-performance organizations.

• HIGH COMMITMENT, HIGH PERFORMANCE 6
• CONTENTS 10
• PREFACE 14
  • A Short History of Management Thought 16
  • The Purpose of This Book 18
  • Who Should Read This Book 19
• CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 24
  • High-Commitment Manufacturing Plants 26
  • Innovations at the Business Unit Level 27
  • Academics Discover HCHP Corporations 28
  • Assumptions Underlying HCHP Organizations 30
    • The Multiple Stakeholder Perspective 31
    • The Employee Influence and Learning Perspective 31
    • The Systems Perspective 32
    • The And/Also Perspective 33