Requisite Organization: A Total System for Effective Managerial Organization and Managerial Leadership for the 21st Century : Amended

By Gerald E. Markowitz and David Rosner

Book Overview

En el mundo empresarial globalizado de nuestros dias, el sistema unitario a integrado de Jaques, tal como lo representa en La Organizacion Requerida, es un faro que da luz nueva a los enfoques cientificos tendientes a comprender la organizacion de los sistemas de trabajo. La obra de Jaques, de alto nivel y gran sentido practico, es util para todos los tipos de organizaciones laborales, ya sea en la industria, el comercio, los servicios o la administracion publica. Establece un modo totalmente nuevo de como manejar una empresa. La Organizacion Requerida muestra que cualquier compania, en el corto plazo, puede obtener una ventaja comparativa introduciendo nuevos productos y servicios pero hoy, para que el existo sea real y de largo plazo debe poseer una organizacion solidamente estructurada, con personal eficaz y liderazgo gerencial en todos sus niveles; o sea, la organizacion requerida. En la Organizacion Requerida encontrara las soluciones para los problemas que presentan las nuevas organizaciones: La estructura organizativa: cuantos niveles debe haber en una empresa y como evitar que se multipliquen. Por que es indispensable que los verdaderos gerentes asuman su autoridad y la responsabilidad de rendir cuentas. Medir el nivel de complejidad de la tarea que ejecutan todos. Descripcion de las funciones operativas centrales en todas las tareas. Lograr que cada nivel realice las tareas del orden de complejidad apropiado. El trazado de los procesos sistematicos de informacion, planificacion y control. Como va a evaluar la eficacia de cada uno de los subordinados y vincular una remuneracion apropiada. Como implantar una estructura justa de remuneraciones diferenciadas, ligada a los nivelesorganizativos y de trabajo. En que forma evaluar la capacidad potencial de la gente a fin de alentar su desarrollo profesional y el crecimiento de la empresa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096210700X
• ISBN13: 9780962107009
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cason Hall & Co Pub
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 7.5" x 1.0"

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Read this book. Follow its directives

Want to reduce turnover, eliminate micromanaging, improve leadership and staff development, increase productivity, increase employee and managerial satisfaction, achieve organizational goals, and more? Read this book. Follow its directives. It may take a while to digest the very dense information contained in this book, but for the serious student of organizational effectiveness, it is worth it. Very terse and prescriptive...

Thought-Provoking

Elliott Jaques devised a system for analyzing executive ability based upon an individual's time horizon--the maximum period of time in the future toward which his/her work activities were aimed in their performance. He reached this conclusion during extensive, longitudinal, empirical studies in England (see "The Changing Culture of a Factory" for example). His series of books reflect his elaboration and extension of this...

Pounding insight

The Requisite Organization is a text explaining how to organize and properly staff a beaurocracy for maximum effectiveness. Sounds painful and dull, but perhaps beaurocrats get such a bad rap because they are operating ineffectively. Stratified Systems Theory is a hard-core scientificaly derived theory on who has the adequate personal capabilities to be a manager. The key concept is that leaders should be given responsibility...

The best in linking complexity and human capability

We have many theories on strategy and complexity. But no understadings regards how these links to human capability. Jaques explains and shows how to connect complexity to human work. And his understanding of human work is particular and clarifying - human work has to do with uncertainty. People in a managerial hierarchies has to deal with different degrees of uncertainty and Jaques shows it in a very organized and deep way...