Change MastersFrom Simon & Schuster, The Change Masters is Rosabeth Moss Kanter's guide to innovation and entrepreneurship in the American corporation. The Change Masters looks behind the scenes at some of the most important companies in America, including Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Polaroid, General Motors, Wang Laboratories and Honeywell, to describe their organizational structures, their corporate cultures, and their specific strategies. |
Contents
Introduction | 17 |
Transformations in the American Corporate Environment | 37 |
PART | 67 |
The Fate of Employee | 102 |
PART THREE | 127 |
Empowerment | 156 |
Employee Involvement | 180 |
PART FOUR | 207 |
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action activities agers Alfred Sloan American areas assignment boss Bunce Chestnut Ridge Chipco coalition communication company's corporate entrepreneurs create culture decisions develop directors division employees environment example executives experience feel formal function GM's Hewlett-Packard hierarchy Honeywell ideas important improve individuals industry initiative innovating companies integrative investment involved issues Karl Weick kinds Kyocera large number leaders levels Lordstown major managerial matrix meetings ment Meridian middle managers Motors move operations opportunity organization's organizational participation Paul Nieman peers percent personnel Petrocorp planning plant Polaroid potential problem-solving problems quality circles reported response rewards Rosabeth Moss Kanter routine segmentalism segmentalist skills solving Southern staff steering committee strategy structure success supervisors Tarrytown task forces teamwork things tion tive Tracy Kidder traditional United Auto Workers vice-president Wang Labs workers