Managing Strategic Change or Spaces of Globalization

Managing Strategic Change: Technical, Political, and Cultural Dynamics

Author: Noel M Tichy

Shows how managers can use the conceptual framework of TPC theory (technical, political, and cultural dynamics) to cope with major strategic reorientation. Raises such fundamental questions about the nature of organizations. What business(es) should we be in? Who should reap what benefits from the organization? What are the values and norms of organizational members? Provides concepts and workable technologies for dealing with these questions and preparing for future change. Includes extensive examples.

Table of Contents:

Partial table of contents:
A FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC CHANGE.
Strategic Change Management.
Organizational Models.
STRATEGIC ISSUES: DIAGNOSIS AND STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT.
Diagnosis for Change.
Application of Diagnostic Strategy.
Change Strategy.
Technical Change Strategies.
Political Change Strategies.
Cultural Change Strategies.
IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC CHANGES.
Change Technologies.
Transition Management.
MONITORING CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT.
Monitoring and Evaluating Strategic Change.
Strategic Change in the Future.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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Spaces of Globalization

Author: Kevin R Cox

Arguments about the globalization of economic relations have become commonplace; part of the everyday diet of social science and public affairs alike. Citing the growth of multinational and transnational corporations, and the enhanced mobility of goods, services and money, proponents of the globalization hypothesis claim that capital now creates new forms of competition beyond the reach of state agencies and nationally organized forms of worker representation. Defined in this manner, globalization becomes a threat to the welfare state, to policies of full employment, and to national living standards. Taking a radically different tack, this timely and far-reaching volume reexamines the underlying assumptions of globalization arguments from a critical perspective. Alongside globalization, authors show, there persist tendencies towards the territorialization and re-territorialization of economic life, as well as the development of new organizing strategies by labor. Probing the complex relationship between the global and the local and investigating the changing dynamics of contemporary firms, labor, capital, and communities, the book also addresses the broader question of the difference that space makes in understanding society.

Getting Work or Our Continent Our Future

Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950

Author: Walter Licht

How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by general economic circumstances, by discriminatory practices in the labor market, or by personal initiative and competence? Walter Licht uses intensive primary-source research on a major industrial city for a period of over one hundred years to tackle these questions. He looks at when and how young people secured first jobs, the influence of agencies on the hiring process, schools and work, apprenticeship programs, unions, the role of firms in structuring work opportunities, the state as employer and as shaper of employment conditions, and the problem of losing work--the job search as a seemingly perpetual activity. Licht's findings enliven and sometimes revise specific scholarly and social policy debates. School programs, for example, are shown to have been unsystematic because of various social clashes; working-class children had only loose ties to schools. Men and women, blacks and whites, older-stock Americans and newcomers had disparate labor market experiences. Experience in the labor market varied not only by group and across time, but also during different stages of the individual's life. Getting Work is important reading for policymakers, social historians, economists, and students of management and industrial relations.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables	viii
	Preface	ix
1.	Particularities	1
2.	Entering the World of Work	17
3.	Schools and Work	57
4.	Agencies	98
5.	Firms	141
6.	The State	174
7.	Losing Work and Coping	220
	Conclusion	256
	Primary Sources	265
	Notes	267
	Index	313

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Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment

Author: Thandika Mkandawir

For decades now, many African countries have implemented the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods Institutions. The results, however, have been less than sterling. Extreme poverty and underdevelopment continue to plague what is becoming the world's "forgotten continent," and it is now generally agreed that a new approach is urgently required. Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy.

Times Literary Supplement - Michael Chege

A refreshing work from two of Africa's most eminent economists, which employs the research efforts of twenty-five of their colleagues across Africa.