The organizational sweet spot: engaging the innovative dynamics of your social networks

In The Organizational Sweet Spot, Dr. Charles Ehin takes a refreshing new look at what it will take to reengage the disaffected worker and boost their resolve to advance novel ideas. Applying the latest research from such fields as evolutionary psychology, social neuroscience, organizational behavior, anthropology, and social network analysis, Ehin demonstrates how employee disengagement is rooted in a fundamental misalignment between people’s instinctive drive to develop their personal and group identities through informal or “emergent relationships and the ways in which organizational goals and profit motives are executed through formal bureaucracy. The challenge for today’s organizations is to narrow this gap, that is, to find the “sweet spot, where the formal and informal elements of the organization overlap. Ehin provides practical tools for leaders to support this “shared access domain to improve productivity, catalyze innovation, and inspire exceptional performance. Addresses the widespread dilemma of employee disengagement and its affect on knowledge generation with a novel approach Integrates perspectives from management, anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience to explain the emergent social dynamics Offers guidance to business leaders searching for ways to increase the innovative dynamics, motivation and performance of their knowledge workers INDICE: One - Introduction: Closing the Engagement Gap. Two - Mainstays ofSocial Engagements. Three - Relationship and Identity Development. Four - Innovation Dynamics and Organizational Ecologies. Five - Leadership versus Governorship. Six - Un-Managing Relationships and Innovation. Seven - Epilogue: Living on the Edge. Appendix A - Identifying the Controlled-Access Context. Appendix B - Identifying the Shared-Access Context. Bibliography. About The Author. Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-98193-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 170
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés