Managing Value-Based Organizations: It's Not What You Think: It's Not What You Think

OCyAn insightful and enjoyable book. Bruce Hoag and Cary Cooper first provide a concise history of work, organizations and management highlighting what has changed over time and why. Then emphasizing the value-based organization OCo an organization committed to delivering value to all of its stakeholders OCo they tackle the OC so whatOCO providing practical advice for organizations, managers and employees. It will make you think.OCOOCo Ronald J. Burke, York University, CanadaManaging Value-Based Organizations argues that those who fail to understand management history are destined to repeat it. Research has shown that despite the prodigious output of management books, managers still have little idea why there is so much change in the world of work or what they can do about it. Most, it seems, are still waiting for the dust to settle, expecting instead that in the near future they will be able to go back to doing things the way they have always done them."