Without clear authority, no one is empowered, not the manager, the staff, or the hourly worker. Yet, all need to be empowered--appropriately. Industrial sabotage, apathy, and the failure to identify quality issues are unproductive uses of power. A major problem in organizations is the exercise of either too much management authority or the other extreme--abdication. Authority must be balanced. Empowerment is really about helping people channel the power they have toward qualitative and productive ends.

Walking the Empowerment Tightrope: Balancing Management Authority & Employee Influence

Business & Money

Crosby, Robert P.

Management & Leadership

Human Resource Development

Solving the cross-work puzzle: Succeeding in the modern organization

LIOS Pub

The Authentic Leader tells how, in (mostly) story form, to achieve a powerful synthesis between management authority and employee participation.

The Authentic Leader: How Authority and Consensus Intertwine

Paper Jam Publishing

Get Unstuck from Fundamentalism unravels the mystery behind the need to hold myths as literal truth and the need for certainty. Written in and laced with engaging Italian stories, it points beyond mere rejection of childhood upbringing to a deep spiritual shore that is there for all of us to find. Children live in a literal world where myths and reality are blurred such as the existence of Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. Many of those beliefs are unraveled by the time you become an adult, but fundamentalism is that which remains locked into absolutism. It is as if all the answers and purpose of the world come from outside of yourself, and the stories if still held literally remain in charge of your thinking. Most aren't even aware of this. 30% of Americans hold fundamentalist beliefs, but only 9% call themselves a fundamentalist. Those who are unaware cannot realize that they live on the ends of strings that someone else pulls. Others live in reaction against their childhood literal beliefs and therefore shut themselves off from further spiritual growth.

Get Unstuck from Fundamentalism - A Spiritual Journey

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Vivo Publishing Co., Inc.

Cross-Function project and major task success is not only possible, but there are practical ways to do so that yield predictable and repeatable results. The Cross-Functional Workplace (formerly Solving the Cross-Work Puzzle) outlines the three dimensions critical in order to align your organization for success. The author guides you through today's complex organizations by weaving in a story which illuminates its key concepts, and illustrates how to use his models and instruments through real-work vignettes

The Cross-Functional Workplace: Matrixed Project and Task Success

CrosbyOD Publishing

This diary of a philosophically-inclined "temporary citizen" weaves together companionship, food, wine, and song to tell about the annual journey he makes with his wife to this lovely ancient village.

A Month in Medieval Volpaia, Tuscany: Diary of a "Temporary Citizen"

Politics & Social Sciences

Crosby, Patricia N

Philosophy

Cultural Change in Organizations provides answers for those wanting to help their culture move. This how-to book for creating what the Gallup poll calls an "engagement culture" illustrates how to lead an organization toward increased business results and improved morale. This book showcases, in story form, how to create a culture which forges a powerful synthesis between management authority and employee participation which leads to striking results in safety, quality, and productivity. It is written from Robert Crosby's extensive experience "in the trenches": within organizations where he works on a regular basis with all stakeholders. Examples span hi-tech, nuclear, government (city, county, and federal), manufacturing (union and non-union), the health industry, and non-profit organizations.

Cultural Change in Organizations: A Guide to Leadership and Bottom-Line Results

Memoirs of a Change Agent is the most comprehensive book ever written to illustrate Organization Development (OD). It includes significant interventions in manufacturing, nuclear industry, software and community development. The author takes one into the nitty-gritty of his successful interventions.
Beyond the amazing interventions, Crosby shares mostly unknown information about the beginning of Organization Development and integrates social justice with it as was the case in the birth of the T-group and the Organization Development movement.
"Our turnaround was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars...the underlying most significant change was a human intervention (goal alignment, survey feedback and Crosby's Skill Groups)." -George Bergeron Executive Vice President, Alcoa (Retired)
"Crosby's account of the use of the T-group and Kurt Lewin's social psychology is a must read for practitioners and academics." -Edgar H. Schein, Professor Emeritus, MIT
"At last, a book that integrates the myriad threads of humanity, OD, T-groups, and social justice, threads often seen as unrelated." -Dr. Gloria J. Burgess, CEO &amp; President, Jazz International
"Robert Crosby's knowledge of the importance and application of T-groups is unsurpassed." -Dr. W.Warner Burke, Columbia, University
"How does significant change come about? Read this book and marvel, as I did, with how change is accomplished." -Dr. Rodney D. Coates, Miami University
"A gift to OD practitioners. He whispers at your shoulder: Here's what to expect, how to handle it, and the underlying principle." -Barry Oshry, Developer of the Power Lab
"An exquisite text lovingly imagined for the next generation, this tour de force should be required for aspiring applied social psychologists." -Dr. Richard A. Schmuck, University of Oregon

Memoirs of a Change Agent: T-groups, Organization Development, and Social Justice

Crosby, Chris P

Crosby, Gilmore L

Crosby Od Publishing

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