Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization

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John Wiley & Sons, 2010 M10 7 - 336 pages
In this book the author explains that managers must build human capital and engender employee engagement by managing them almost not at all, by attending instead to the factors and circumstances that make them successful. In other words, managers must play their role from offstage and out of the limelight. Based on a survey of over 16,000 employees, the author presents Towers-Watson' management performance model: Executing tasks, Building relationships and performance capability, and Energizing change. Additionally, managers must create an atmosphere of authenticity and trust.
 

Contents

Why Managers Have a Tough Job
25
A New Model of Manager Performance
39
Constructing the Manager Role
71
Executing Tasks
105
Developing People
143
Delivering the Deal
177
Energizing Change
199
Authenticity and Trust
229
Fitting the Pieces Together
257
Notes
281
The Authors
313
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About the author (2010)

Thomas O. Davenport is a senior practitioner in the San Francisco office of Towers Watson, a worldwide human resource consulting firm. He provides advice on human capital strategy, employee and organization research, and leadership development to clients in a wide variety of industries.

Stephen D. Harding is a senior practitioner in the London office of Towers Watson. He has consulted in employee research and organizational behavior for the last twenty years and has responsibility for managing employee research projects throughout Europe and elsewhere internationally.

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