Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, a

The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life

By Thomas W Malone

For more than a decade, business thinkers have theorized about how technology will change the shape of organizations. In this landmark book, renowned organizational theorist Thomas Malone, codirector of MIT's Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century initiative, provides the first credible model for actually designing the company of the future.

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Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publish Date: 04/02/2004
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781591391258
ISBN-10: 1591391253
Language: English

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For more than a decade, business thinkers have theorized about how technology will change the shape of organizations. In this landmark book, renowned organizational theorist Thomas Malone, codirector of MIT's Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century initiative, provides the first credible model for actually designing the company of the future. Based on 20 years of groundbreaking research, The Future of Work foresees a workplace revolution that will dramatically change organizational structures and the roles employees play in them. Technological and economic forces make command and control management increasingly less useful. In its place will be a more flexible coordinate and cultivate approach that will spawn new types of decentralized organizations--from internal markets to democracies to loose hierarchies. These future structures will reap the scale and knowledge efficiencies of large organizations while enabling the freedom, flexibility, and human values that drive smaller firms. This book explores the skills managers will need in a workplace in which the power to decide belongs to everyone.

About the Author

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, a professor of information technology, and a professor of work and organizational studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and was one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century."

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