Corporate Transformation: Revitalizing Organizations for a Competitive World (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988)
by Ralph H. Kilmann, Teresa Joyce Covin, and Associates
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Corporate transformation is sweeping America: more than half the companies on the Fortune list of the 1000 largest U.S. corporations have undergone some form of significant reorganization during this decade. Forward-looking leaders in business and industry want access to the latest insights and strategies for bringing about major changes in U.S. corporations—changes that will transform them into the kind of adaptive, innovative, and market-driven organizations that can compete in today's marketplace. This new book presents the state of the art in corporate transformation today.
This single comprehensive volume brings together twenty-two original chapters by leading researchers, consultants, and executives who are studying and actively practicing corporate transformation. The authors explain hot to initiate and implement transformation efforts at all organizational levels—examining the roles lower-level employees as well as top executives play in bringing about major change. Included are in-depth descriptions of four specific methods used by companies in a range of fields—including banking, high-tech industry, and others—to achieve successful corporate transformation. The book also documents such diverse efforts as the introduction of new management systems and the implementation of recent manufacturing technology. And detailed case studies of effective organizational changes in such companies as Westinghouse, National Steel, and Navistar illustrate how to plan and organize change, overcome obstacles, and achieve systemwide transformation.
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Contributions by:
Richard Beckhard
Michael Beer
Robert R. Blake
Anthony F. Buono
Edward E. Lawler III
Howard M. Love
Jane Srygley Mouton
Thomas J. Murrin
David A. Nadler
Michael L. Tushman