This book helps managers and
students of management to makes sense of the competing advice on how to change
organisations in order to improve their effectiveness.
Helps managers to understand
how their organisations' performance could be improved.
Presents an overview of the
advice on organisational improvement facing managers.
Classifies and evaluates
various different approaches.
Highlights the relationships
between strategy and capability.
Graeme Salaman
is Professor of Organisation Studies, Director of the Business Studies programme, and
Director of Programmes and Curriculum at the Open University Business School. He has
written over 50 books and articles, including Human Resource Management: A Strategic
Introduction (with John Storey and Chris Mabey, Blackwell Publishing, 1998) and Strategic
Human Resource Management (1998). He has also worked as a consultant in eight
countries for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Willis, BAT, Government of Ethiopia,
Fujitsu, Allianz, Ernst and Young, Rolls ROyce, Morgan Stnaley.
David Asch
is Pro Vice-Chancellor Strategic Management Planning and Resources at De Montfort
University in Leicester. He has writtenover 50 articles and books, including New
Economy, New Competition (2001), Managing Strategy (1996) and Financial
Planning(1996). He has worked with the senior teams of a range of firms including
Cornhill, Ernst and Young Fujitsu/ICL, and Sun Microsystems.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
1. How Organizations are
Changing and Why
2. The Model - Four Ways to
Improve Organizational Performance
3. 'Fit'- Fitting
Organizational Structures to Business Strategy
4. The Resource Based View
of Strategy
5. Formulating Strategy
6. Developing Strategy
7. The Adaptive Organization
8. Summary and Conclusion
Index
201 pages