For
more than twenty years, Edward Lawler has had worldwide influence
in the areas of management and organization design. This landmark
book, one of the most-cited volumes on the topic of motivation
in the workplace, defines Lawler's basic philosophy: in order
to have effective organizations, we must understand how to motivate
and encourage effective individual performance. The time-tested
theories he writes about in this classic book have been the basis
for nearly all of Lawler's subsequent work in the areas of pay
and reward systems, employee involvement, organization design,
and organizational change.
In
his new introduction to this classic edition, he shows how his
original emphasis on work design and reward systems is especially
relevant to the current emphasis on creating high performance
work organizations through new organization design and management
approaches. Lawler's theories continue to help us understand the
world around us today, forming the basis for many successful managerial
practices found in today's workplace, and continue to prove that
no matter what organization design or approach is used, it cannot
succeed if it fails to motivate employees to perform well.
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