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001 2002005468
003 DLC
005 20050607121456.0
008 020408s2003 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002005468
020 $a0071393927 (hc : alk. paper)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aHD31$b.D42253 2003
082 00 $a658.4/02$221
245 00 $aDesigning organizations to create value :$bfrom structure to strategy /$cJames A. Brickley, Clifford W. Smith, Jr., Jerold L. Zimmerman, with Janice Willett.
260 $aNew York :$bMcGraw-Hill,$cc2003.
300 $axi, 308 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 295-299) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Organizational Architecture: The Three-Legged Stool Design Flaws -- Organizational Architecture -- A Question of Balance -- Economic Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest -- Benchmarking -- Our Approach to Organizations -- 2. Maximizing Shareholer Value: Crafting a Strategy to Create and Capture Value -- Changing Organizatiotal Architecture to Create Value -- Shareholder Value -- Why Successful Managers Care about Shareholder Value -- Creating and Capturing Value -- How to Create Value -- Can Firms Capture the Value They Create? -- Strategy -- Architectural Considerations -- Can All Firms Create and Capture Value? -- 3. Knowledge and Incentives in Organizations -- Unlocking Knowledge within Organizations -- Converting Organizational Knowledge into Value -- Incentives within Organizations -- Alternative Models of Behavior -- Which Model Should Managers Use? -- 4. The First Leg: Decision Authority, the Level of Empowerment, -- and Centralization versus Decentralization -- From Centralization to Decentralization and Back -- Assigning Tasks and Decision Authority -- Centralization versus Decentralization -- Lateral Decision Authority -- Assigning Decision Authority to Teams -- Decision Management and Control -- Influence Costs -- 5. Decision Authority II: Bundliug Tasks into Jobs and Jobs into Business Units -- Reconfiguring Jobs to Boost Productivity -- Specialized versus Brod Task Assignment -- Forming Business Units: Function versus Product or Geography -- Operating Environment, Strategy, and Architecture -- Matrix Organizations -- Recent Trends in Assignment of Decision Authority -- 6. The Second Leg: Performance Evaluation -- Performance Evaluation That Works -- The Contribution to Value -- Setting Performance Benchmarks -- Measurement Costs -- Relative Performance Evaluation -- Subjective Performance Evaluation -- Combining Objective and Subjective Performance Measures -- Team Performance -- Government Regulation -- 7. Divisional Performance Measurement -- Performance Measures Matter -- Measuring Divisional Performance -- Transfer Pricing -- Interal Accounting and Performance Measurement -- 8. The Third Leg: Compensation -- Compensation Structure Matters -- Human Capital and the Level of Pay -- Internal Labor Markets -- Career Paths and Lifetime Pay -- The Mix of Salary and Fringe Benefits -- 9. Incentive Comlpensation -- Not All Incentive Plans Work -- Forms of Incentive Pay -- The Benefits of Incentive Pay -- Reinforcing Strategic Objectives -- Incentives from Ownership -- Optimal Risk Sharing -- Effective Incentive Contracts -- Group Incentive Pay -- An Application: Telecommuting -- Do Incentives Work? -- 10. Leadership: Initiating, Motivating, and Managing Change -- Leading the Vision -- Leadership and Decision Making -- Managing the Process of Change -- Organizational Power -- The Use of Symbols -- Ethics and Organizational Architecture -- 11. The Process of Management Innovation -- Management Innovations -- The Risk of TQM and Other Innovations -- Why Management Innovations Often Fail -- Failure to Consider Other Legs of the Stool -- Managing Changes in Architecture -- Organizational Change Checklist.
650 0 $aIndustrial organization.
650 0 $aStrategic planning.
700 1 $aBrickley, James A.
700 1 $aSmith, Clifford W.
700 1 $aZimmerman, Jerold L.,$d1947-
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/mh041/2002005468.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2002005468.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh024/2002005468.html