THE FUTURE OF WORK
How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life
Thomas Malone
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Work with organizations to determine how to optimize function based on the interplay of communication, motivation, flexibility, size, centralization, creativity, and the marketplace
• Learn the difference of benefits of bigness vs benefits of centralization itself.
• Learn three basic forms of decentralization in organizations: loose hierarchies, democracies, and markets
• Learn when to decentralize or centralize
Thomas W. Malone, Ph.D., is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He is also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and was one of the two founding codirectors of the MIT Initiative on “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.”
7 CE credits; 304 pages
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