Agile Organization

How to Build an Engaged, Innovative and Resilient Business
3. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-3986-0866-5
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 933 g

The key to retaining competitive advantage in a volatile business world is agility. The third edition of The Agile Organization shows how to develop capabilities across the organization to adapt. With helpful checklists, tips and advice, this is a practical blueprint to building both agility and resilience at individual, team and organizational levels. It covers how to design agile organizations as well as how to implement agile models into existing organizations and people practices. There is guidance on how agility can be applied to talent management, flexible working patterns and the importance of mobilizing and energizing employees for change. This edition contains new material on agile mindsets and enterprise agile planning, alongside how hybrid forms of working can enhance resilience. There is also extended material on how inclusion and wellbeing initiatives can support individual resilience and innovation to improve performance across the organization. Case studies include ING, the University of California, Berkeley, the UK National Health Service (NHS) and SNC-Lavalin's Atkins business. This book is an essential read for HR and OD specialists, senior leaders and managers who want transform their organization and build an agile business.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holbeche, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: Why go agile?;
  • Chapter - 02: The resiliently agile organization;
  • Chapter - 03: Agile strategizing;
  • Chapter - 04: Agile linkages;
  • Chapter - 05: Designing for agility;
  • Chapter - 06: Agile implementation;
  • Chapter - 07: Agile people processes;
  • Chapter - 08: Nurturing employee engagement and resilience;
  • Chapter - 09: HR’s role in building a high-performance work climate;
  • Chapter - 10: Building a change-able culture;
  • Chapter - 11: Agile leadership;
  • Chapter - 12: Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Holbeche, Linda
Dr Linda Holbeche is Co-Director of the Holbeche Partnership, Adjunct Professor at Imperial College London Business School, UK, and Visiting Professor at four other UK universities. She acts as consultant on OD, HR, Strategy and Leadership. She is Fellow of Roffey Park and the Institute of Employment Studies and was previously Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Director of Leadership and Consultancy at the Work Foundation. In 2021 she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine and is the co-author of Organization Development, also published by Kogan Page.

Linda Holbeche is co-director of The Holbeche Partnership, and was previously Director of Research and Policy at the CIPD. She was Director of Leadership and Consultancy at the Work Foundation and of Research and Strategy at Roffey Park and is Visiting Professor at five UK universities. In 2021 she was named as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers by HR Magazine and is the co-author of Organization Development, also published by Kogan Page. She is based in Sussex, UK.