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Addictive Organization (The).

Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel. 1988

Summary: This book focuses on the dysfunctional addictive systems in business or in any other group endeavor-revealing how the addictive system operates, how to recognize it, and how to begin the recovery process. Schaef and Fassel explore the four major forms of addiction in organizations- addiction, addictive behavior brought into the organization, addictive substance in the organization, and an organization that is addictive. Special attention to workaholism, its counter productivity, and how to recover from it.

Key Words: work addiction, workaholism, recovery, healing, relationships, individual behavior, addictive organizations,

Beyond Bureaucracy. Essays on the Development and Evolution of Human Organization. 

Warren Bennis. 1993 

Summary: The author employs a behavioral science perspective to examine the strategic, methodological and conceptual issues central to changing organizations. He the adaptive leadership behavior required to meet the needs of the new democratic organizations. He also reveals how change affects human organizations and tells what leaders can do to direct the rate, shape, and consequence of change. 

Key Words: strategy, methodology, organizational change, leadership, change

Building A Quality Workforce. 

U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Commerce. 1988 

Summary: This publication is a joint effort among three Cabinet Agencies working on one common agenda, building quality workforce to met the needs of a new technological society. The first part describes what was learned from research, consultation and the second part includes profiles of communities working to unite the workplace and the workforce. 

Key Words: workforce, workplace, work teams, productivity, effectiveness, skills, community, education

Career Dynamics: Matching Individual and Organizational Needs.  

Edgar H. Schein. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD)

Character of Organizations, (The). 

William Bridges. 1992 

Summary: The author explains why organizations act as they do and why they are so hard to change. He groups organizations into 16 personality types as originally presented by Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator).This book provides a new outlook to organizational development and insight into ways of maximizing organizational effectiveness 

Key Words: organizational development, organizational structure, organizational character, effectiveness, change, Carl Jung, growth change culture

Competence Connection (The): A Blueprint for Excellence.  

Jay Hall.

Consultant's Kit: Establishing & Operating Your Successful Consulting Business. 

Jeffrey L. Lant. 1981. 

Summary: This is a book on how to get into the consulting business. The author gives many pointers from his own experience and attempts to motivate workers to become independent. Included in the list of topics are, marketing, shops, and other useful advice. 

Key Words: consultation, marketing, motivation, career development

Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life.  

Terrence E. Deal and Allen A. Kennedy. 1982 

Summary: The authors probe to discover the key to business excellence in America. They find the rational aspects of managing, financial, personnel policies, cost control are surpassed by the long term prosperity of the company's culture- the inner values, rites, rituals, and heroes that strongly influence top mangers to the secretarial pool 

Key Words: values, goals, traditions, relationships, organizational culture

Corporate Culture. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports) .1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles on corporate culture. Includes the topics of productivity, organization, politics, and strategy. 

Key Words: organizational culture, strategy, management systems, effectiveness, values, ethics, productivity

Cultural Diversity in Organizations. 

Taylor Cox, Jr. 1993. 

Summary: Written primarily for those charged with learning and teaching cultural diversity in the workplace this book will help business people facing the challenges of managing efforts to enhance effectiveness in a diverse and changing world. Based on ten years of research, this books looks at diversity from the individual, group and organizations standpoints and points to theory, research, and practice for answers and explanations.  

Key Words: diversity, culture, relationships, goals, future, relationships. cultural diversity

Decision Making. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Report). 1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles focusing on decision making, intuition, and ways of management. 

Key Word: decision making, intuition, non rational decision making, management

Designing Complex Organizations. 

Jay Galbraith. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD) 1973. 

Summary: This book is an attempt to present an analytical framework of the design of organizations and particularly of types of organizations which apply lateral decision processes or matrix forms. This is primarily but not exclusively devoted to matrix design and is very abstract. 

Key Words: organization design, matrix designs, information systems, models, matrix organizations

Designing Organizations for High Performance.  

David P. Hanna. (Addison-Wesley OD Series)

Developing Corporate Character: How to Successfully Change an Organization Without Destroying It.  

Alan L. Wilkins.

Discovering Common Ground.  

Marvin R. Weisbord. (two copies)

Dismantling the Pyramid: Government... By the People... 

Paul Von Ward. 1981 

Summary: A though-provoking book on the effect of politics on businesses and organizations today. The author comments on the need for governmental reform to help businesses and individuals succeed. 

Key Words: government, politics, bureaucracy, society, organization, change

Emerging Practice of Organization Development, (The). 

Sikes, Drexler, and Gant (eds.) 1989 

Summary: This book sheds new light on this emerging profession, offers practical tips to improve organizational development (OD) efforts, and addresses a wide range of topics and points of view from practitioners and scholars on the current practice of OD. Covers everything from the role of OD in the nonprofit sector to cultural and ethnic consideration to the profound challenges facing practitions of OD. 

Key Words: organizational development, values, relationships, goals, future, change, marketing, learning, theory, methodology, cultural diversity

Empowerment in Organizations: How to Spark Exceptional Performance. 

Judith F. Vogt and Kenneth L. Murrell. 1990. 

Summary: This book explores the concept of "empowerment" which offers employees a way to achieve recognition, involvement, and a sense of worth in their jobs. Any organization can learn how to provide an environment that people find empowering. Important feature of the book are defining empowerment, six skills for empowering, case studies, and three major processes of empowerment 

Key Words: empowerment, motivation, relationships, organizational development, performance, leadership

Exemplar (The). 

Robert R. Carkhuff. 1984 

Summary: The objectives of this book are to detail by experiential observation and empirical efficiency the characteristics required of productive people in the Age of Information. These characteristics revolve around human processing and thinking. 

Key Words: mind, motivation, thinking, productivity, potential, performance, exemplar, individual behavior, self-improvement

Extension Handbook. 

Donald J. Blackburn. 1984 

Summary: This handbook deals with a whole range of aspects of extension work from theories about the learner and the learning process to the management and administrative duties of the extension/technology transfer worker. The handbook ends with an updated view of technology and its application to extension work.

Key Words: Extension, learning, technology, planning, programs, motivation, community, communications, rural education, marketing, teaching, education, leadership, evaluation

Expansive Executive (The). 

Robert E. Kaplan. (Special Report) 1989 

Summary: This is a research-based insight into personality type common among senior managers, including its effect-for better or worse-on executive leadership. 

Key Words: management behavior, leadership behavior, personality, personal development, career development

Extension In Iowa. 

Ralph K. Bliss. 1960. 

Summary: This book is the author's record of the achievement of the first half century of Iowa Extension. Bliss believes Extension work in agriculture and home economics is the most significant development in adult education in the past century. He also speaks of what the possibilities are for Extension in the future. 

Key Words: Extension, Iowa, agriculture, home economics, adult education, rural education.

Feedback and Organization Development: Using Data-Based Methods.  

David A. Nadler. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD)

Fixing Relationships Through Joint Action. 

Robert E. Kaplan. (Technical Report 24). 1983. 

Summary: This paper attempts to extract what is most useful, practical, and transferable form the openness movement and apply it to the problem of repairing work relationships. 

Key Words: work, relationships, healing, communication, conflict

Flexible Organization (The): A Unique New System for Organizational Effectiveness and Success. 

Barbara Forisha-Kovach. 1984 

Summary: Companies that know how to adapt to their people to change are the ones staying in power. The author takes a look at organizational framework and why its flexibility is crucial to companies that want to survive. Includes experiences with leading companies and exercises that may be used for a better organization. 

Key Words: organizational design, organizational structure, change, relationships, management, effectiveness, leadership, work teams, communication, individual behavior, problem solving, decision making, organizational culture

Futures Research and the Strategic Planning Process. 

Morrison, Renfro, and Boucher. 1984 

Summary: Faced with the challenges of change, businesses and universities must develop and implement a body of concepts and techniques known as strategic planning. This volume explains how and why institutions of higher education can exploit futures research in strategic planning.

Key Words: strategic planning, development, future, change, research, planning, goals, implementation, evaluation, monitoring

Heritage Horizons. (Extensions Commitment To People). 

C. Ausitn Vines. 1976 

Summary: This book identifies the role of the Cooperative Extension Service in the growth and development of our society and points to some directions for the future. Fifty people from within and outside the organization contributed articles and essays. It is designed in three parts to clarify history and philosophy, reflect on present programs, and suggest directions for future growth and development. 

Key words: Extensions, future, productivity, quality, organizational development

Human Resource Development Quarterly.  

Richard A. Swanson. (Spring, Summer, and Fall of 1990)

Images of Organization. 

Gareth Morgan. 1986 

Summary: This book stands as a treatise on metaphorical thinking that contributes to both the theory and practice of organizational analysis. 

Key Words: organizational structure, organizational culture, leadership, power, organizational change, evaluation, future, organizational development

Insight to Impact Strategies for Interpersonal and Organizational Change. 

William G. Dyer. (1976). 

Summary: This book is directed to management trainers, personnel specialists, consultants, change agents, organization development specialists, and increasing numbers in education, the ministry, law, social work, and nursing whose work is change-centered. It suggests that change has to be thought about, implemented, and then assessed to see if the impact is the one desired. (pp.196). 

Key words: Interpersonal competency, congruence, acceptance, interdependence, motivation, personal concern, adjustment, group behavior, conflict, consulting, group trainer, family units.

Leadership. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports) 1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles on leadership , where it is taking us, and how we can further develop our leaders for the future. Included in the list of topics are manager-employee relations, effectiveness, skills , and leadership behavior. 

Key Words: leadership, skills, leadership behavior, effectiveness, relationships

Learning Edge (The). 

Calhoun W. Wick and Lu Stanton Leon. 1993. 

Summary: This book offers a concrete approach all managers and executives can use to create the capabilities needed for success. It examines how individuals and organizations use intentional learning as the activator and accelerator for success. It also proposes new prescription for transforming any company into a flexible learning organization. Based on the authors 12-year study of how real mangers actually learn using charts, graphs, plans, interviews, seminars, workshops, etc.. 

Key Words: learning, management, strategy, goals

Managerial Effectiveness. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports). 1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles relating to managerial effectiveness, its benefits, goals, and practice 

Key Words: management, human resources, effectiveness

Managing Change.

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports). 1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles on transition management. Includes success stories of real companies and new practices that may even further develop change management. 

Key Words: management, change, organizational change, work teams, work, structure

Managing Conflict: Interpersonal Dialogue and Third-Party Roles.  

Richard E. Walton. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987 

Summary: This book presents a framework for diagnosing recurring conflicts and suggests several basic options for controlling or resolving them. Topics range form basic function of managing conflict, techniques for managing dialogue and third-party attributes of consultants. Cases studies provided. 

Key Words: conflict management, relationships, accommodation, communication, third-parties

Marketing and Advertising. 

Procter and Gamble (Insights Into Economics)  

Summary: These are true stories based on actual facts from Procter and Gamble that are designed to supplement basic economics and consumer education textbooks. Includes worksheets and transparencies. 

Key Word: marketing, advertising, economics, education

Matrix.

Stanley M. Davis and Paul R. Lawrence. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD). 1977. 

Summary: The dilemma of organizations today is one of freedom or order. When one is emphasized the strengths of the other disappear. This book is about how to put an organization together like a matrix equation, so that all parts fit and are emphasized. 

Key Words: organizational development, change, order, freedom, matrix organization, individual behavior, future

Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990's. 

John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene. 1990. 

Summary: The purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important trends of the 1990's. These new trends are the gateway to the 21st century and they will astound, excite and profoundly touch each one of our lives. Included in the list of megatrends are the global economic boom, free-market socialism, global lifestyles and cultural nationalism, etc.

Key Word; future, trends, direction, goals, culture

Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives. 

John Naisbitt. 1982 

Summary: This book is a primer for the eighties that outlines our where sophisticated technology is taking us and how America's social structures will change. The author presents a new way of looking at America's future understanding he jumble of the present by detailing America's shift from industrial production to providing services and information. This will help you project career and business moves, decide where to live, and analyze governmental trends.  

Key Words: future, technology, government, personal change, career development, personal development

Neurotic Organization, (The). 

Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Danny Miller. 1984 

Summary: The authors detail five different organizational neuroses, paranoid, compulsive, dramatic, depressive, and schizoid and how each affect planning, decision-making, and organizational cultures. They uncover the causes of such problematic organizational behavior and explain ways of dealing with psychological conflict and working for positive change in organizations. 

Key Words: relationships, organizational neuroses, psychological, conflict, organizational culture, individual behavior, organizational behavior

Organizational Behavior. 

Griffin Moorhead. (1986). 

Summary: This book provides some of the tools and insights necessary to execute organizational behavior and choose the right strategy to enhance the organization's human resources. (pp.708). 

Key words: Organizational behavior, descriptive nature, social concepts, individual concepts, theory and research, motivation, perception, personality, individual learning, creativity, concepts, applications, needs and motives, motivation framework

Organization Design and Structure. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports) 1988. 

Summary: A collection of articles on organization design and structure. Included in the list of topics are how it makes organizations more efficient and its effect on the individual. 

Key Words: organizational design, organizational structure, individual behavior, centralization, centralization, attitude, performance

Organization Development. Its nature, origins, and prospects.

Warren G. Bennis. 1969 

Summary: This book is a primer on organization development. It rest on three basic propositions: organization exists at different levels in every age, in order to change organization one must change "culture", and self-awareness is needed to survive in business. Written for students and practitioners and draws on personal experiences. 

Key Words: organizational development, self-awareness, culture, sensitivity training, organizational culture

Organization Development: A Normative View. 

W. Warner Burke. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987 

Summary : The author describes the basic tenets of organizational development and looks at OD as a change of an organization's culture. Topics range from an initial definition of OD to a historical overview of the field, and cover such concerns as planning and managing change, the OD consultant, and the process of diagnosis. It concludes with insights to the future and a description of the essence of the practice of OD in relationship to the client. 

Key Words: organizational development, organizational culture, planning, management, future, change

Organization Development: Strategies and Models.

Richard Beckhard. 1969 

Summary: This book is based largely on the authors own experience in helping organization leaders with planned-change efforts, and on related experience of colleagues in the field. He attempts to give a relatively systematic description of organization development. 

Key Words: organization development, leadership, change, planning

Organization Development: An Annotated Bibliography for the Practitioner. 

Karen Rickards Hardie and Ron G. Harrison. (Special Report). 1987. 

Summary: This is an annotated bibliography of books on organizational development. Includes literature reviews, strategy books, process and roles books, edited collections, and classic statement on organizational development. 

Key Words: organizational development, literature

Organizational Co-Dependence: Causes and Cures. 

J. Larry Goff and Patricia J. Goff. 1991

Summary: This book examines co-dependence from an organizational standpoint. It compares and contrasts personal co-dependence from that seen in organizational settings. It explores the origins , driving forces, and discussions of different symptoms. Finally, it offers practical solutions for change, recovery, and healing. 

Key Words: control, power, recovery, self-discipline, influence, individual behavior, healing, co-dependence, organizational co-dependence

Organizational Culture and Leadership.

 Edgar H. Schein.

Organizational Dynamics: Diagnosis and Intervention. 

John P. Kotter. (Addison Wesley Series on OD) 1978. 

Summary: Offers managers and OD specialist a way of diagnosing organizational problems and of deciding when, where and how to use (or not to use) the divers and growing number of organizational tools that are available today. The book includes many different concepts, research findings, and competing philosophies and provides specific examples of how to use the information to improve organizational functioning. 

Key Words: organizational change, technology, relationships, models, diagnosis

Organizational Transitions: Managing Complex Change.  

Richard Beckhard and Reuben T. Harris. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987 

Summary: This book examines the changing environment and provides a look at how existing knowledge and technology can be usefully applied to the future. It raises issues such as organizational commitment to change, organizational culture, and how to increase and maintain creativity, productivity, and innovation in the midst of change. Written primarily for managers, consultants, and other executives. 

Key Words: organizational change, transition, commitment, productivity, creativity, organizational culture, potential, management

Patterns of High Performance. 

Jerry L. Fletcher 1993 

Summary: The key to energized performance, heightened creativity, and consistent excellence lies in discovering our individual High Performance Pattern. Through sixteen case studies, the author shows how individuals can discover and apply their High Performance patterns to sustain outstanding results in real-life situations. This method can be used ion the work place, personal life, staff, employees, etc. 

Key Words: motivation, performance, potential, individual behavior, personal development, relationships

Pay and Organization Development. 

Edward E. Lawler. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD) . 1981. 

Summary: This book examines the important role that reward systems play in organization development . Combines examples and specific recommendations with conceptual material to organize various topics and put them into a total system perspective. Discusses gain sharing, skill-based pay, flexible benefits. 

Key Words: organizational development, reward, payment, benefits, gain-sharing

Performance Appraisal. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports) .1988.

Summary: A collection of articles on the benefits of performance appraisal and how to implement it into your business or organization. 

Key Words: performance appraisal, reward system, performance, management, goals, motivation

Perils of Intensive Management Training and How to Avoid Them, (The). 

Robert E. Kaplan. (Technical Report 19). 1981 

Summary: This paper detail the major risk factors in intensive training and suggests a number of corresponding safety measure. 

Key Words: management , training, risks, evaluation

Power of Partnering, (The).

Joanne G. Sujansky. 1991 

Summary: This book describes how to form nurture, and manage partnerships with managers, employees, and consultants. It provides techniques for developing effective partnerships for evaluating progress of partnerships, and for becoming more effective members of an organization. 

Key Words: partnerships, relationships, productivity, work teams, relationships, evaluation

Power. 

(Organizational Dynamics Special Reports). 1988 

Summary: A set of articles about power in the past and today. Includes a strategic contingency model of power, Americas power needs, and sexual politics in the workplace.

 Key Words: power, success, effectiveness, ethics, values, relationships, sexual power, harassment

Power and Organization Development (Mobilizing Power to Implement Change). 

Larry E. Greiner and Virginia Schein. (Addison-Wesley Series on OD). 1988.

Summary: The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a solid grounding in the role of power and politics in organizations, with specific focus on how managers use power bases and strategies to get things done and to provide the reader with strategies and intervention techniques for bringing about change in an organization. 

Key Words: power, change, strategy, leadership, collaboration

Principles of Human Resource Development. 

Jerry W. Gilley and Steven A. Eggland. 1989 

Summary : An overview of the theory and practice of human resource development. This all-in-one source serves as an introduction to the Human Resource Development (HRD) function in organizations and provides a foundation of professional knowledge on which both students and practitioners can build. Uses charts, tables, and diagrams to cover HRD, roles, components, competencies, foundations, and issues. 

Key Words: human resources, development, potential, motivation, career development, personal development, learning, management, programs, planning, evaluation, marketing, professional development, future

Process Consultation Vol. 1: Its Role in Organization Development.  

Edgar H. Schein. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987. 

Summary: This volume outline the basic concepts and techniques of process consultation for both students and practitioners. It will help practicing managers, prospective managers, and active consultants to become more effective and will enable them to influence situation without the direct use of power or formal authority. 

Key Words: process consultation, communication, work teams, leadership, problem solving, decision making, performance, evaluation, group relationships, structure

Process Consultation Vol. 2: Lessons for Managers and Consultants. 

Edgar H. Schein. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987. 

Summary: This book reaffirms the concept of process consultation as a viable model of how to work with human system. It clarifies the concept of process consultation and introduces modifications and new ideas such as cultural rules of interaction, initiating and managing change, intervention strategy, tactics and style, and emerging issues in process consultation. 

Key Words: process consultation, process, change, strategy, culture

Productive Workplaces. 

Marvin R. Weisbord. 1987. 

Summary: The author integrates the histories and theories of the founders of organizational development with cases from his own twenty-five years of experience as manager and consultant to present new guidelines for managing changing. His guideline are woven around three major themes, hunger for community in the workplace, the changing world, the conflict between authority and dependency. 

Key Words: organizational relationships, commitment, community, theory, learning, organizational improvement, organizational development

Productivity in Organizations. 

John P. Campbelt, Richard J. Campbell, and Associates. 1988 

Summary: Experts thoroughly examine what productivity is and describe the best strategies for increasing it. Including, how individual and group performances contributes to productivity, the psychological factors that maximize productivity, and the most promising new directions for further research. 

Key Words: productivity, potential, individual behavior, work teams, goals, performance, evaluation, motivation, learning, psychology

Purpose-Driven Organization (The): Unleashing the Power of Direction and Commitment. 

Perry Pascarella and Mark A. Frohman. 1989 

Summary: The author shows how managers can turn their companies into purposeful one. He draws on examples of successful and purposeful companies to detail how to develop and define your organization's unique purpose and how to use it to drive productive change throughout the organization. 

Key Words: commitment, motivation, goals, values, purpose, organizational development

Seventy-five (75) Years of Service.

Dorothy Schwieder. Foreword by Wayne D. Rasmussen. 1993 

Summary: This is the definitive history of the first seventy-five year of the Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service. Consulting manuscript reports, published sources, and many of the people involved. She assesses the success of Extension by looking at the agricultural programs, home economics and outlook for the future. 

Key Words: Extension, future, agricultural, Iowa, problem-solving, education

Strategic Marketing for Educational Institutions. 

Philip Kotler and Karen Fox. 1985 

Summary: The purpose of this book is to lay out the elements of marketing as they relate to educational institution, and to demonstrate their application to educational settings. Educational administrators and other interested educators are acquainted with the central ideas of marketing and how to apply them. Anecdotes, short stories and examples from real educational institutions. 

Key Words: marketing, educational institution, education, consumers, advertising, planning, students, strategy

Stream Analysis: A Powerful Way to Diagnose and Manage Organizational Change. 

Jerry 1. Porras. (Addison-Wesley OD Series). 1987. 

Summary: This book presents a conceptual framework for organizations that will help managers and change-practitioners to better understand organizations. It describes an approach for diagnosing failing in organizational functioning and for planning a comprehensible set of actions needed to change the organization into a more effective system. 

Key Words: organizational development, change, effectiveness, failure, management

Taking The University to the People (Seventy-Five Years of Cooperative Extension.) 

Wayne D. Rasmussen .1989.

Summary: Rasmussen delineates the process by which Extension provided "quality information, education, and problem-solving programs on real concerns," particularly in agriculture and home economics. The goals and plans for the coming decades are contemplated, and modifications of purpose and changes brought about by the technical and electronic revolution of the past twenty years are taken into account. 

Key Words: Extension, future, problem-solving, goals, programs, planning, technology, education

Team Building: Issues and Alternatives. 

William G. Dyer. (Addison-Wesley OD Series). 1987. 

Summary: Contains practical ways to implement and build a productive team, such as agenda questions for evaluating existing teams, and a team building checklist. Actions and alternatives covering various phases of team building are provided as well as special issues in team building such as interteam conflicts, complacent teams, or unhealthy agreement among team members.  

Key Words: team building, work teams, collaboration, relationships, productivity, evaluation. team conflicts

Technology Connection (The): Strategy and Change in the Information Age. 

Marc S. Gerstein. (Addison-Wesley OD Series) 1987 

Summary: This book provides managers and consultants with a useful way to think about the relationship between information technology, business strategy, and the process of change in organizations. Also identifies the organizational and human consequences of widespread incorporation of information technology in business. 

Key Words: strategy, technology, organizational change, planning

Ultimate Advantage (The).

 Edward E. Lawler III. 1992. 

Summary: This is an informed and detailed overview of how an organization must be designed to encourage innovation, increase cost-effectiveness, and deliver enhanced quality, customer service and speed. The author gives techniques on how to develop work teams, improvement groups, skill-based pay systems, and other practices that can create an environment where employees grow and prosper. 

Key Words: motivation, organizational development, work teams, performance, skills, growth

Understanding Applied Strategic Planning: A Managers Guide.  

Pfeiffer, Goodstein, and Nolan. (1985). 

Summary: This book will highlight the process and the role of the planning team in regard to the rest of the organization. It explains how can you applied strategic planning. (pp.51). 

Key words: strategic planning, values audit, mission formulation, environmental scanning, functional plans, gap analysis.

Vision Action  

Benjamin B. Tregoe et al. 1989 

Summary: This book is pioneering work that addresses integrating your company's strategic goals into day-to-day management decisions. It helps you discover how to achieve concrete management results and ensure steady growth and profitability over the future. Written by executives at a leading management firm, this gives tips on how to maintain a successful balance of operational and strategic concerns, sharpen the vision, and explains strategic goals which produce long-term growth. 

Key Words: Strategy, goals, management, results, action, organizational improvement, organizational development

Working Ourselves To Death. (The High Cost of Workaholism and the Rewards of Recovery) 

Diane Fassel. 1990. 

Summary: The author debunks the notions that work addicts get ahead, that workaholism is profitable for corporations, and that work addiction is nothing more than stress or burnout. She describes four types of work addicts, the compulsive, the work binger, the closet workaholic, and the work anorexic, and test how to distinguish between overwork and work addiction. She guides readers toward balance and serenity through simple and proven techniques including personal inventories and daily work journals.  

Key Words: workaholism, work addiction, healing recovery, individual behavior, personal development, recovery

Work Redesign. 

J. Richard Hackman and Greg R. Oldham. 1980 

Summary: This book is about ways that jobs can be set up so that work and fun are not so often at opposite poles.

Key Words: word redesign, motivation, change, work, relationships, work teams, management, work systems

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment.

William C. Byham, Ph.D. (1988).

Summary: This book shows what supervisors, managers, and organizations must do to create and maintain an empowered workforce. It offers the concept of empowerment from academic theory into inspiring, invigorating energy that will enhance the success of any business. (pp.200).

Key words: Empowerment, goal, measurement, business, academic theory, invigorating energy

Last Updated: August 23, 2000
Contact: Kaela Postma at postma@iastate.edu