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Transitions to Competitive Government
(September 2000)
Speed, Consensus, and Performance
Ronald B. Cullen - Author
Donald P. Cushman - Author
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Describes how private-sector management strategies can help governments obtain greater access to global resources, create more jobs, and provide better social services to their citizens.
Transitions to Competitive Government demonstrates how government can add value to a region, a nation, a state, its citizens, and their social values through speed, consensus, and performance. It does this in three stages. First, it shows compet...(Read More) |
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Continuously Improving an Organization's Performance
(May 1997)
High-Speed Management
Donald P. Cushman - Author
Sarah Sanderson King - Author
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This practical guide for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork.
This practical hands-on tool kit for managers demonstrates when, where, and how to implement significant organizational change through teamwork. The use of self-managed, cross-functional, benchmarking, and outside linking teams by high performance firms are employed in a case study format....(Read More) |
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Lessons From the Recession
(April 1997)
A Management and Communication Perspective
Sarah Sanderson King - Editor
Donald P. Cushman - Editor
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Explores the differential effects of recession on public and private sector organizations in America, Europe, and Asia.
"This is a unique text that not only discusses problems of recession, but also analyzes its impacts on industrial/organizational stability. It provides very useful answers on how to prevent recession from happening, and also on how to deal with it successfully if and whenever it occurs. Of particular ...(Read More) |
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Changing Roles of State Intervention in Services in an Era of Open International Markets
(March 1997)
Yair Aharoni - Editor
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Addresses the issues involved in the globalization of services and the resulting changing role of government.
Growth in the services sector has far outpaced the knowledge available to global managers and government officials. Forced to constantly redefine their roles in the face of massive technological changes and a myriad of regional and worldwide trade agreements, these leaders require up-to-date research and analysis in order to make ...(Read More) |
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Winning
(September 1995)
Continuous Improvement Theory in High Performance Organizations
Krysztof Obloj - Author
Donald P. Cushman - Author
Andrzej Kozminski - Author
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This book shows how organizational frame-breaking changes can be used in order for an organization to learn from its own experience and continually improve.
"This book introduces an exciting new concept of management theory that combines several individualized concepts which have been presented in recent years as the basis of management theories by themselves. The value of the blending of these theories is amply demonstrated by a great va...(Read More) |
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Communication and High-Speed Management
(August 1995)
Donald P. Cushman - Author
Sarah Sanderson King - Author
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This book provides a new understanding of the role communication plays in integrating, controlling, and coordinating high performance organizations.
"It is a major contribution to our discipline's body of knowledge, perhaps the most significant, original theoretical development in organizational communication in 25 years.
"Given the intense international competition now faced by virtually all manufa...(Read More) |
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Organizational Teamwork in High-Speed Management
(December 1994)
Yanan Ju - Author
Donald P. Cushman - Author
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This is the first book to discuss teamwork and the recent phenomena of high-speed management. It addresses the intersection of these two areas of research and organizational practice.
Teamwork in the context of high-speed management has never before been treated systematically, and high-speed management as a concept or as a field of study has only been a recent phenomenon. This book addresses the intersection of these two areas of resea...(Read More) |
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Corporate Communication
(August 1994)
Theory and Practice
Michael B. Goodman - Editor
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Communication has become more complex as businesses compete globally. This book explores corporate communication as both a professional practice and as an academic discipline. The essays and case studies provide numerous perspectives on topics such as diversity, sexual harassment, global corporate communications, and communicating corporate culture. These essays are meant to stimulate thought and encourage additional research.
"This book i...(Read More) |
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New Approaches to Organizational Communication
(July 1994)
Branislav Kovacic - Editor
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"This book represents a clearly-focused vision about where the field of organizational communication is going. I know of no collection of essays that provides the depth, breadth, and intellectual clarity that this book does." -- Anne M. Nicotera, Howard University
New Approaches to Organizational Communication brings together three major conceptual developments. First, it sheds new light on standards used to evaluate processes and pra...(Read More) |
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The Challenge of the 21st Century
(July 1994)
Managing Technology and Ourselves in a Shrinking World
Harold A. Linstone - Author
Ian I. Mitroff - Author
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"This book is a substantial contribution to futures research, societal analysis, and related fields, as would be expected from two senior professionals. It presents well-organized, balanced thinking about future trends, issues, and uncertainties." -- Thomas F. Mandel, SRI International
The population and technology explosions are shrinking the world to a system in which everything is interactive, forcing us to transcend traditional modes of ...(Read More) |
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