Performance management for agile organizations: overthrowing the eight management myths that hold businesses back

Agile is the new black. Every business now has to be adaptive, nimble and ready to pivot - managers have to be comfortable with ambiguity and constantly read to change. And yet... While agility is regarded as essential for competitive advantage, most organizations are still unthinkingly applying peo...

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1. Verfasser: Baker, Tim (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:Agile is the new black. Every business now has to be adaptive, nimble and ready to pivot - managers have to be comfortable with ambiguity and constantly read to change. And yet... While agility is regarded as essential for competitive advantage, most organizations are still unthinkingly applying people management practices, rooted in Frederick Taylor's scientific management philosophy of the early 20th century, designed to ensure consistency and efficiency on production lines but which actively prevent the sort of creativity and flexibility needed in the modern workplace. One hundred years of scientific management had lead to the creation of eight performance myths. Myths that impede the agility necessary to compete in the age of the knowledge worker but which are so instinctively embedded in management psyche that they go unchallenged despite the fact that changing the world of work had rendered them dysfunctional and counterproductive
Beschreibung:xix, 228 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9783319401522
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