Change Masters (Paperback)

~ (Author) "IN MY TRAVELS around corporate America, in settings as distant geographically and culturally as a Los Angeles bank's high-rise headquarters, a snow-bordered Minneapolis electronics factory,..." (more)
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Product Description

The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies.

About the Author

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD, is a Harvard Business School Professor and has taught at the Yale Business School of Management as well. She is the author of The Change Masters. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 436 pages
• Publisher: Free Press (March 15, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671528009
• ISBN-13: 978-0671528003
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #413,984 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review of organisational structure and innovation., January 20, 1999

By A Customer

If you've ever wondered what's wrong in the organisation you work for, why results are poor, why departments can't work together, why the best people keep leaving and why the rest feel helpless and miserable; this is the book for you. It's an academic text and the author draws strongly from her own research in several different organisations, some of whom she cannot name so gives them her own names - have fun guessing who they are. Of particular value is the section on roadblocks to managerial innovation, or how to prevent organisational success. A definite gift for your boss, but first erase all your comments like "that's us!" or "we do that!" because there will be plenty.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roadblocks and Enablers of Organizational Change, May 5, 2001

By	C. Gilbert "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

_The Change Masters_ was written in 1983, and since that time organizations have become much more focused on issues of transformation, but I think employees of most companies will still recognize their organizations in these pages-- and not necessarily in the positive ways.

This book was written in aid of waking the entrepreneurial spirit of the employees of large corporations and looks closely at the ways that this can be either stifled or made possible.

Clearly written from a wealth of experience, Kanter draws on case studies of companies for whom she has worked. That experience is further supported by citations from academic research and a great deal of very strong analytical thought.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brings several important themes together, April 8, 2000

By	Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

This book was meaningful to me because it documents the relationship between an open organizational environment, individual employee productivity, and innovation.