"A terrific book!" --David A. Nadler, chairman, DeltaConsulting Group Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams.Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components oforganizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research andconsulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard,Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and TexasInstruments, the authors shows you how to create new organizationdesigns that empower teams so that they make a real difference. You'll discover how to: * Design new work teams * Identify new roles and responsibilities * Manage team performance * Create an empowering team environment Over 50 tables, figures, and exhibits reinforce the practical text.Even if teams already exist at your organization, you'll use thiswell-researched guide to push your teams to higher levels ofperformance!

Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work

Business & Money

Mohrman, Susan Albers

Cohen, Susan G.

Mohrman Jr., Allan M.

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Traditional forms of collaboration are not sufficient for competing effectively in the more complex and dynamic environment of today’s business world. Face-to-face meetings between people of similar backgrounds have given way to increasingly complex working relationships. Organizations must be able to gain rapid access to knowledgeable people to meet constantly changing conditions and demands. More fluid, flexible, and easily reconfigurable collaborative relationships are necessary to produce the innovations that can make or break organizations¾even entire industries¾ and provide the opportunities that attract the talented and motivated employees who will make the difference between success and failure. 
Business Without Boundaries helps managers address these challenges. The authors explore a number of wide-ranging, real-world cases to identify hands-on principles for successful collaboration. They offer managers and executives practical steps and tools for creating, facilitating, and supporting complex collaborations throughout their organizations. And they explain how to “team” across boundaries in the new global economy. The recommendations are specific enough to apply to particular forms of complex collaboration (for example supply chains, global product development teams, interorganizational alliances) but general enough to apply to new forms that have yet to emerge.

Business Without Boundaries: An Action Framework for Collaborating Across Time, Distance, Organization, and Culture

Mankin, Don

International

Based on the authors' research and experience in more than 100 organizations-large and small, high- and low-tech, service and product providers-Teams and Technology shows how to develop new information systems that support collaborative work, how to build teams that take advantage of technological potential, and how to create an organization with a structure and policies that support the synergy of teams and technology.

Teams & Technology

Mankin, Donald

Bikson, Tora K.

Harvard Business Review Press

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