Competitive advantage through people / Jeffrey Pfeffer.
By: Pfeffer, Jeffrey.
Material type: BookPublisher: Boston : Harvard Business School, 1996Description: ix, 281 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 087584717X ; 0875844138 .Subject(s): Personnel management | Employee moraleDDC classification: 658.314Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 658.314 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017841 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Explores why - despite long-standing evidence that a committed work force is essential for success - firms continue to attach little importance to their workers. The answer resides in a complex web of factors based on perception, history, legislation, and practice that continues to dominate management thought and action.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-272) and index.
Part I: Performance through people -- Sources of sustained success -- What effective firms do with people -- The evidence for slow learning and unrealized potential -- Part II: Barriers to doing the right thing -- Wrong hereos, wrong theories, wrong language -- Overcoming history -- Labor laws, lawyers and litigation: Friends or foes of work place change? -- Employee organizations: Their effects and role in work place reform -- Resistance from within -- Part III: Prospects for change -- The promise of the quality movement -- Making the change.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Performance through People
- 1 Sources of Sustained Success
- 2 What Effective Firms Do with People
- 3 The Evidence for Slow Learning and Unrealized Potential
- Part II Barriers to Doing the Right Thing
- 4 Wrong Heroes, Wrong Theories, Wrong Language
- 5 Overcoming History
- 6 Labor Laws, Lawyers, and Litigation: Friends or Foes of Work Place Change?
- 7 Employee Organizations: Their Effects and Role in Work Place Reform
- 8 Resistance from Within
- Part III Prospects for Change
- 9 The Promise of the Quality Movement
- 10 Making the Change
- Notes
- Index