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In life, there are a handful of opportunities that allow us to significantly and directly impact the lives of others in a positive way. Leading a high-performance team is one of the most exciting people who participate in a high-energy, can-do organization never forget it. In Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams, you ll learn there is a time and place for team building and there are times when money spent on team building is wasted. This guide points out the differences and suggests strategies any manager can use to improve the collective performance of workers and volunteers. Based on extensive research into competencies associated with successful team building, the book will empower you to make a positive difference in the lives of many people. In 11 chapters, you ll learn how to: Develop leaders in your teams Release human potential for profit Build a high-performance team Appraise people and performance Get rid of non-performers Train, coach, discipline and counsel Drawing on his experience as a behavior-oriented consultant and HR manager, Woodwork Sears also covers such topics as tough love in the workplace, the truth about money and motivation, disbanding a team, getting people to do what you want them to do, and more. When all the solid tips and tools discussed in this book come together for you, you ll know you re on the way to having the high-performance team you hoped for.

The Front Line Guide to Building High Performance Teams

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This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

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We think we know the 40 million Gen X workers and the Boomer decision makers creating our team-based organizations. But with the first empirical data of their kind, the authors of this surprising and controversial look at today’s reality separate fact from fiction about how to create high-performing teams that build on the values each generation brings to the workplace: authentic teams that celebrate the individual and strengthen collaboration and commitment without sacrificing the collective.

BRIDGING THE BOOMER-XER GAP explodes the myth of Gen Xers as slackers, loners, and self-absorbed job-shifters and exposes the truth about how the Boomers leading today’s organizations can build a team-based business landscape for the 21st century. Armed with fascinating evidence culled from nearly 400 surveys from such organizations as Boeing Aircraft, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Champion Mortgage, the authors offer an effective new model for managing the integration of Boomers and Xers for maximum productivity and job satisfaction. They identify the values that unite and divide the generations, and translate their research into management strategies accommodating these differences in the areas most critical to effective teamwork–empowering others vs. self-empowerment, conflict resolution vs. conflict management, autonomy vs. interdependence. BRIDGING THE BOOMER-XER GAP presents a step-by-step guide to work team development, detailing specific techniques to help both Gen Xers and Boomers navigate successfully through the process.

Bridging The Boomer–Xer Gap: Creating Authentic Teams for High Performance at Work

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This up-to-date, research-oriented textbook focuses on the relationship between compensation systems and firm overall performance. In contrast to more traditional compensation texts, it provides a strategic perspective to compensation administration rather than a functional viewpoint. The text emphasizes the role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations. It analyzes recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. The authors provide a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation and revisit debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives. They provide insights from disciplines as diverse as management, economics, sociology, and psychology, and amplify previous discussions with the latest empirical findings on compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to firm overall performance.

Compensation and Organizational Performance: Theory, Research and Practice

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The chapters in this volume are drawn from the Center for Study of Work Teams most recent conference, one which brings practitioners and researchers together to share knowledge and experience. The chapters cover a diversity of issues and variables that contribute to successful teaming. They also cover a variety of types of teams and remind us that different factors apply to different team requirements. Collectively these chapters expand our knowledge base in the field.

This volume is an example of how the Center has contributed to the accumulation and management of knowledge about teaming over an extended period of time. Anyone who is involved with teaming, either at the micro or macro level, will benefit from the contents of this volume and from the overall body of work it represents.

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