The Sharing of traditional managerial prerogatives with all members of an organization is no longer a prescription - it's a reality. This collection offers influential visions of business organizations that mandate and depend upon self-management and colaboration. Other articles explain how managers can direct themselves and others in companies with diminished hierarchy, with special emphasis on manufacturing concerns. Also included is a dissenting view asserting the continuing vitality of the hierarchical organization.



Contents :

The Collaborative Organization

* Democracy is inevitable ( an HBR classic) by Philip Slater and Warren G. Bennis

* The coming of the new organization by Peter F. Drucker

* Matric management : not a structure, a frame of mind by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Goshal

* The New managerial work by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

* Entrepreneurship reconsidered : the team as hero by Robert B. Reich

* Wrestling with Jellyfish by Richard J. Boyle

* In praise of Hierarchy by Elliott Jaques

Participation on the factory floor

* From control to commitment in the workplace by Richard E. Walton

* People policies for the new machines by Richard E. Walton and Gerald I. Susman

* The human costs of manufacturing reform by Janice A. Klein

* Good supervisors are good supervisors - anywhere by Janice A. Klein and Pamela A. Posey

* Managing without managers by Ricardo Semler

* How I learned to let my workers lead by Ralph stayer