The Performance Imperative: Strategies for Enhancing Workforce Effectiveness (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) [Hardcover]

Howard Risher (Author), Charles H. Fay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787900850 | ISBN-13: 978-0787900854 | Publication Date: June 20, 1995 | Edition: 1st

This book brings together a wide range of innovative techniques and approaches for increasing people's effectiveness at work--from performance measurement to gainsharing systems. The Performance Imperative offers an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to improving effectiveness in the workplace, drawing on the expertise of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field--including Edward E. Lawler III on challenges to organizational effectiveness, Phillip B. Crosby on quality management, Susan A. Mohrman on designing work teams, and Jennifer Jarratt and Joseph F. Coates on the new role of human resources in improving organization and human performance.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In 20 chapters, this collection provides an overview of the major issues affecting today's workforce. Risher (a principal of a consulting firm) and Fay (human resource management, Rutgers Univ.) divide these chapters into seven major sections: emerging trends in the workforce, workforce organization, leadership, management systems, pay and incentives, labor-management relations, and the future of the workforce. The authors of the individual chapters include a wide variety of both human resource specialists and academics. Most of the chapters include background information and techniques and approaches for increasing worker effectiveness. Though the editors include many of the major topics associated with workforce productivity, there is only a brief mention of the role of demographics, including diversity, gender, and family life issues. Nevertheless, the various viewpoints and approaches covered will be of great interest and use to both managers and human resources personnel. Recommended for public libraries.?Gary W. White, Pennsylvania State Univ., Harrisburg
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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This book brings together a wide range of innovative techniques and approaches for increasing people's effectiveness at work--from performance measurement to gainsharing systems. The Performance Imperative offers an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to improving effectiveness in the workplace, drawing on the expertise of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field--including Edward E. Lawler III on challenges to organizational effectiveness, Phillip B. Crosby on quality management, Susan A. Mohrman on designing work teams, and Jennifer Jarratt and Joseph F. Coates on the new role of human resources in improving organization and human performance.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 456 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (June 20, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787900850
• ISBN-13: 978-0787900854
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,381,501 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)