The human element : ten new rules to kick-start our failing organizations /

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Author / Creator:Boyle, David, 1958- author
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2012.
Description:ix, 181 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8678540
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ISBN:9781849714495 (hbk)
1849714495 (hbk)
9780203128268 (ebk)
0203128265 (ebk)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The People Principle
  • 1. Recruit staff for their personality not their qualifications
  • 2. Dump the rulebooks and targets
  • 3. Put relationships at the heart of organizations
  • 4. Demerge everything
  • 5. Obliterate the hierarchies and empires
  • 6. Give people whole jobs to do
  • 7. Chuck out the big IT systems
  • 8. Give everyone the chance to feel useful
  • 9. Make organizations into engines of regeneration
  • 10. Localize everything
  • Conclusion: Finding a new horse
  • Index