Improving performance how to manage the white space on the organization chart

Through illustrative examples from organizations including AT & T, GTE, Ford, and Motorola, the authors show how their Process Management approach can: forge a stronger link between strategy and process redesign; install a top-to-bottom measurement system that provides a foundation for continuou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rummler, Geary A. (-)
Other Authors: Brache, Alan P., 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass c1995.
Edition:2nd ed
Series:The Jossey-Bass management series
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627571506719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The challenges facing American business
  • pt. 1. A framework for improving performance. Viewing organizations as systems
  • Three levels of performance: organization, process, and job/performer
  • pt. 2. Exploring the three levels of performance. The organization level of performance
  • The process level of performance
  • The job/performer level of performance
  • pt. 3. Applying the three levels of performance. Linking performance to strategy
  • Moving from annual programs to sustained performance improvement
  • Diagnosing and improving performance: a case study
  • Redesigning processes
  • Overcoming the seven deadly sins of process improvement
  • Measuring performance and designing a performance management system
  • Managing processes and organizations as systems
  • Designing an organization structure that works
  • Creating a performance-based human resource development function
  • Developing an action plan for performance improvement.