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... unique aspects of the United States form of management . The question proved embarrassing . I realized that I had no organized view , no sense of what distinguishes the typical , much less the successful firm in our country . Indeed , I ...
... unique aspects of the United States form of management . The question proved embarrassing . I realized that I had no organized view , no sense of what distinguishes the typical , much less the successful firm in our country . Indeed , I ...
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... unique features of our organizations and the forces in our society that shape them . A colleague , Richard T ... uniquely American , which are the focus of this book . From the interviews in the first phase of the research emerged a ...
... unique features of our organizations and the forces in our society that shape them . A colleague , Richard T ... uniquely American , which are the focus of this book . From the interviews in the first phase of the research emerged a ...
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... unique set of skills and a different kind of worker . Every company would be spending so much time teaching its methods that productivity would be dismal . Given specialization and professionalization , however , workers can be nomads ...
... unique set of skills and a different kind of worker . Every company would be spending so much time teaching its methods that productivity would be dismal . Given specialization and professionalization , however , workers can be nomads ...
Contents
Why We Need to Learn | 3 |
Companies | 57 |
The Z Organization | 71 |
Copyright | |
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achieve Alan Wilkins American companies approach asked bank behavior bureaucratic collectivism commitment Company Z company's complete consistent cooperation coordination corporate culture cost customers decision develop division economic egalitarian employees engineers evaluation and promotion executives feel goals growth Hewlett-Packard ideas important incentives individual industry integrated Intel intimacy involved Japan Japanese companies Japanese firms leader lifetime employment long run major firms Management by Objectives managerial manufacturing meeting ment objectives operating organizational pany participative participative decision percent performance perhaps person personnel ployees problems Procter & Gamble productivity profits Q-C Circle relationship responsibility result sense share skills social society statement of philosophy subordinates subtlety success task Theory Theory Z tion top managers trust Type Z companies Type Z organization typically underlying understand union unique United values wholistic workers young