Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams
The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process.
Though teams are fast becoming the basic foundation of businesses and other organizations, surprisingly few resources are available to help managers, leaders, and design teams organize an entire business or business unit around teams. In response to requests from their consulting clients, including Texas Instruments and Honeywell, the Mohrmans developed these step-by-step materials to accomplish just that.
The workbook is a practical guide that combines basic concepts with dozens of valuable worksheets that team organizers can use to create a viable design plan. Attractively designed with clear graphics, sidebars, to-do lists, and diagnostic aids, the workbook details planning, design, goals, decision-making, communications, leadership roles, performance management, and more. The facilitator's guide outlines how to use the workbook with groups so that unit managers, project managers, design professionals, and human resource staffs can work efficiently with their management teams to transform their groups into teams.

Proven-to-work tools for building or fine-tuning teams

The authors of Designing Team-Based Organizations present hands-on guidance for establishing or refining teams in organizations where they carry out the core work process.

Though teams are fast becoming the basic foundation of businesses and other organizations, surprisingly few resources are available to help managers, leaders, and design teams organize an entire business or business unit around teams. In response to requests from their consulting clients, including Texas Instruments and Honeywell, the Mohrmans developed these step-by-step materials to accomplish just that.

The workbook is a practical guide that combines basic concepts with dozens of valuable worksheets that team organizers can use to create a viable design plan. Attractively designed with clear graphics, sidebars, to-do lists, and diagnostic aids, the workbook details planning, design, goals, decision-making, communications, leadership roles, performance management, and more. The facilitator's guide outlines how to use the workbook with groups so that unit managers, project managers, design professionals, and human resource staffs can work efficiently with their management teams to transform their groups into teams.

In the face of mounting global competition and accelerated changes in technology, organizations are scrambling to develop business strategies, structures, and practices that will simultaneously keep them flexible and profitable. While many companies continue to pursue competitive advantage via the latest management fad, new research indicates that organizational design is now the real key to future success.
Based on eighteen years of in-depth research conducted with Fortune 1000 companies by the Center for Effective Organizations, Tomorrow's Organization is the first book to offer specific hands-on solutions and practical guidelines for creating organizations that can compete successfully in the twenty-first century. This follow-up to the highly acclaimed Organizing for the Future examines the challenges faced by companies as they reorganize to build more flexible and responsive organizations.
From issues of strategy and structure to leadership and capability development, the authors combine their vast research and consulting experience to offer the latest thinking and emerging practices today's most successful companies have incorporated to achieve strategic market advantage. And they outlines the flatter, more flexible and dynamic designs these companies have instituted. Tomorrow's Organization describes how to design for the new competitive environment--including customer product structures, design issues in networked organizations, and the structuring of global organizations. The contributors reveal which current practices are most likely to prove of lasting value and offer new ways to manage employees through competency-based pay, the new learning contract, and newapproaches to executive development. They also provide guidelines for implementing technology as a critical underpinning of new organizational forms.
In an environment characterized by intense and dynamic competition, Tomorrow's Organization offers sound solutions to the challenges companies are facing in today's turbulent market place.

"A terrific book!" —David A. Nadler, chairman, Delta Consulting Group

Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams. Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components of organizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, the authors shows you how to create new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference.

You'll discover how to:

• Design new work teams
• Identify new roles and responsibilities
• Manage team performance
• Create an empowering team environment

Mohrman and Wohlstetter have written the most important volume on school-based management to date... a significant contribution to the school reform literature.

?Joseph Murphy, professor and chair, department of educational leadership, Vanderbilt University