Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little - Overcoming Organizational Immaturity (Hardcover)

A liberating look at the real reasons organization-wide improvement efforts fail and how, when all attempts have failed, you can help your organization to become great. As the authors of this eye-opening new work make clear, to enact real change, organizations need to shake off their immaturity and grow up. Shifting away from the tendency to lay all the blame on bad leadership, Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little: Overcoming Organizational Immaturity offers specific answers for why most organizational improvement efforts fail. Why Organizations Struggle So Hard to Improve So Little explains the difficulties and dangers of organizational immaturity, then provides proven, effective tools and ideas for achieving change within the limitations of an immature organization. With this guide, leaders and other stakeholders will be able to determine the maturity level of an organization, get beyond prevailing myths about how change gets derailed, and identify potential areas for improvement. Includes assessments, policy framework plans, training plans, strategic plans, and other skill-building documents Offers a bibliography with references to contemporary business improvement thinkers and key research into the likelihood of improvement failures Provides a comprehensive index for easy and quick identification of areas of interest

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Authors:	Martin Klubeck • Michael Langthorne • Donald Padgett
Dimensions:	163 x 241 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-38022-8
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Promotions
LSN:	0-313-38022-8
Barcode:	9780313380228

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