Neil Farmer

The Invisible Organization

How Informal Networks can Lead Organizational Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We are on the verge of major breakthroughs in change management, knowledge management, organizational design, talent management, employee engagement, innovation, outsourcing and almost all of the traditional approaches to HR. Managing and motivating people effectively in a turbulent, fast-changing world is, for the first time, about to enter the ex

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 246mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781032838724
• ISBN-10: 1032838728
• Artikelnr.: 70437651

Autorenporträt

Neil Farmer started his consultancy career in 1981 when he joined the ground-breaking IT research and consultancy firm Butler Cox. From 1988 to 1996, he founded and headed one of the UK's top change research groups - the Farringdon Forum Club. During this period, he carried out extensive research into business change, becoming increasingly focused on a single profound question - why does so much business change fail? He is author of 'Total Business Design' published by John Wiley & Sons in 1996. Neil is a leading, innovative business change consultant, he is the consultant you rely on when business change becomes challenging. His clients include large Business Process Outsourcing suppliers (Siemens Business Services, BT and Xchanging) as well as household names such as Nationwide Building Society, National Savings, Liverpool City Council, Lloyds of London and Friends Provident. In late 2009 Informal Networks Limited (which Neil co-founded) joined Professor Karen Stephenson www.netform.com to offer a joint service in harnessing the power of informal networks.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface - The birth of an insight. 'The Invisible Organization': Highlights of the book. The failure of business leadership
The importance of influencers
The importance of informal employee networks
Balancing formal and informal employee networks
Throwing out those tired old HR models
Managing your business using informal employee Networks
Appendices: Using informal networks - questions and answers
Final reflections on 'leadership and change'. References
Index.