The dynamic workplace : present structure and future redesign

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Title:

Author:

Allcorn, Seth.

ISBN:

9781567206197

Personal Author:

Allcorn, Seth.

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Physical Description:

xxi, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Foreword / Michael Diamond -- Ch. 1. Know Thy Workplace -- Ch. 2. Dynamic Workplace Theory -- Ch. 3. The Elemental Forces of Dynamic Workplace Theory -- Ch. 4. Transitional Organizational Space -- Ch. 5. Finding Stability in the Workplace -- Ch. 6. Managing and Consulting Using Dynamic Workplace Theory -- Ch. 7. The Search for the Organizational Solution to the Industrial Revolution -- Ch. 8. Ring Organization Design -- Ch. 9. An Analysis of Dynamic Workplace Theory and Ring Organization Design -- Ch. 10. In Conclusion.

Subject Term:

Organizational behavior.

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Summary

The complexity and dynamism of organizations make them difficult to understand and manage. This book presents the workings and designs of organizations and identifies the types of problems encountered by organizational workers. Allcorn provides an essential focus on dynamic workplace theory, questioning the current and future value of today's bureaucratic, hierarchic organizational structure. Allcorn advocates a shared theoretical perspective that is clear and comprehensive. His theory explains organizational life, encompassing four types of work experience: chaotic, bureaucratic, charismatic, and balanced. He proposes an organizational design that eschews positions of authority and power and eliminates severe, often hindering bureaucracy.

Clear and comprehensible without being simplistic, the book offers insights into how organizations actually function and proposes ways to intervene when organizations grow stale, become self-defeating in their missions, or develop into hostile environments for their employees. The insights and ideas presented here are of considerable and enduring importance to corporate trainers, consultants, group process experts, governmental agencies and entities, executives at all levels, academics, and students of organizational life and its various processes.