Under new management : how leading organizations are upending business as usual / David Burkus.

By: Burkus, David [author]
Language: English Publisher: New York : Mariner Books, 2017Copyright date: c2016Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781328781642Subject(s): Management -- Case studies | Management -- Employee participation -- Case studiesDDC classification: 658
Contents:
Introduction: management needs new management -- Outlaw email -- Put customers second -- Lose the standardvacation policy -- Pay people to quit -- Make salaries transparent -- Ban non-competes -- Ditch performance appraisals -- Hire as a team -- Write the org chart in pencil -- Close open offices -- Take sabbaticals -- Fire the managers -- Celebrate departures -- Afterword: reinventing the management engine.
Summary: This provocative business management book profiles highly successful companies that are experimenting with new strategies and tactics to better engage their employees and customers. The strategies may seem counterintuitive at first, but they are backed by solid, evidence-based behavioral science--and are an integral contributor to these companies' high performance and customer loyalty. The author provides significant and timely research to bolster his contention that many traditional management approaches need to be upgraded.
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Introduction: management needs new management -- Outlaw email -- Put customers second -- Lose the standardvacation policy -- Pay people to quit -- Make salaries transparent -- Ban non-competes -- Ditch performance appraisals -- Hire as a team -- Write the org chart in pencil -- Close open offices -- Take sabbaticals -- Fire the managers -- Celebrate departures -- Afterword: reinventing the management engine.

This provocative business management book profiles highly successful companies that are experimenting with new strategies and tactics to better engage their employees and customers. The strategies may seem counterintuitive at first, but they are backed by solid, evidence-based behavioral science--and are an integral contributor to these companies' high performance and customer loyalty. The author provides significant and timely research to bolster his contention that many traditional management approaches need to be upgraded.

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