Creating an "Open Book" Organization: ...Where Employees Think & Act Like Business Partners [Hardcover]

Thomas J. McCoy (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0814402933 | ISBN-13: 978-0814402931 | Publication Date: May 8, 1996

The long touted "partnership" between management and staff is still an elusive goal for many companies. This book provides the first practical, step-by-step approach to actually achieving this kind of high-performace culture. Filled with original implemetation tools, the book outlines how to educate employees so they fully understand the business and their specific roles, empower them to act in the company's best interests, and engage them with incentive plans.

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Mr. McCoy's approach to the concept of an open-book organization is so revelatory that you must read it cover to cover and in the order presented to get the full benefit. So be prepared to hunker down and wade through it all. The effort will be well worth it, plus the many case studies and examples will help you immensely in seeing the "big picture."

McCoy defines and provides step-by-step guidelines for establishing an effective open-book organization. His original models; the E4-R4 Partnership Checklist, the Education Onion, the Line-of-Sight Linkage Tree, and the Reward System Selector are extremely innovative tools for guiding managers and employees in breaking out of the "us versus them" mentality with which most organizations are plagued. McCoy's premise is that all the change processes in the world are useless unless specific employee expectations and reactions are taken into consideration up front.

These are the special elements of McCoy's thesis that promise to help transform companies into really effective employee-management partnerships with greater profits and satisfaction for all. -- Business Book Review. Volume 13, Number 4

Product Details

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (May 8, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814402933
• ISBN-13: 978-0814402931
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,002,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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As a manager for over 20 plus years, this advice was given to me by my old Sergeant Major when I became an NCO in the Marines. You can order your people around and they will just follow orders, but bring them into the accomplishment of the mission, then you see great things happen. There are too many control freak Managers out there who believe "nothing can get done unless they do it themselves." But are quick to point the finger when the plan falls through. If you want to be a great project manager, than be a GREAT PROJECT MANAGER and manage your team by allowing them to do what you pay them to do and that is get the job done. Its no secret how and why great companies become that way, its not because one CEO or Manager made it that way, its because some CEO or Manager allowed their employees to create success. This book is all about that.