Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational EffectivenessIn this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change
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Contents
Making Processes | |
Acquiring the Right Talent | |
Managing Human Capital | |
Meeting the Leadership Challenge | |
Designing Reward Systems | |
Rewarding Performance and Change | |
Creating a BuilttoChange Organization | |
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