Implementing Organizational Interventions or Activity Based Management

Implementing Organizational Interventions: Steps, Processes, and Best Practices

Author: Jerry W Hedg

With emphasis on actually implementing organizational interventions in a variety of cultures and climates, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all the bases. It not only provides readers with expert advice on confronting the variables that effect a broad array of organizational interventions, but also offers practical guidance for increasing the probability of success. Chapters are arranged around major content areas, including staffing, performance management, reward systems, and organizational strategy, and focus on the primary steps involved, issues that must be considered, and decisions that must be made. First-hand accounts by the contributors illuminate real-world application.

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Industrial psychologists, both consultants and those in-house, will find models, strategies, and tools for implementing organizational interventions and a review of current thinking and research in the field in this book of practical examples and lessons learned. Core chapters are organized around specific content areas such as information technology, mergers and acquisitions, and training, with an outline of steps involved, issues to be considered, and decisions to be made. The authors are fellows of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Authors
1	Grappling with Implementation: Some Preliminary Thoughts and Relevant Research	1
2	Implementing Organizational Change	12
3	Mergers and Acquisitions	43
4	Succession Planning	78
5	Information Technology	110
6	Implementing Reward Systems	133
7	Performance Management	167
8	Implementing Training: Some Practical Guidelines	198
9	Issues in Implementing Large-Scale Selection Programs	232
10	Going Global: Additional Considerations Inherent in Cross-Cultural Implementation	270
11	Concluding Comments: The Role of Organizational Culture in Implementing Organizational Interventions	297
	Index	311

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Activity-Based Management: For Service Industries, Government Entities, and Non-Profit Organizations

Author: James A Brimson

Corporate Accounting

The ABCs of ABM

Activity-based management (ABM) has already proven extremely valuable to manufacturers in helping them cut waste, improve quality, reduce cycle times, and get their products to market faster. Now revised and expanded, this indispensable resource illustrates how ABM can be applied to all types of organizations-including service groups, government agencies, and nonprofit entities-and any department within them.

Using a variety of examples, authors James A. Brimson and John Antos examine a company structure and break down its separate activities to measure each activity's cost/performance effectiveness. Introducing an innovative five-step approach to calculating activity cost, they provide tangible performance criteria linked to time, value, service, quality, flexibility, cost, and performance-to-schedule, and demonstrate how to use activity analysis to ensure that price structure is reflective of total costs.

A vital tool for modern times, this is essential reading for CEOs, operations executives, controllers, managers, and others who are seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date guide on activity-based management and its proper implementation.