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• catalog abstract "This book presents a unique, in-depth examination of the effects that the popular approaches to management organizational change - downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering - had on a major American hospital. The Human Cost of a Management Failure shows what can happen when management insists on accomplishing its ends strictly by the numbers. The authors ask why top management so often, and with seemingly such a cavalier attitude, selects downsizing and similar methods when research indicates that they are all too often such poor choices. Based on a year-long longitudinal study, Allcorn, Baum, Diamond, and Stein report on their interviews with 23 senior and mid-level hospital administrators, then interpret their findings from a psychoanalytic perspective, to make clear that the human side of the workplace can only be ignored at great risk. This is essential reading not only for corporate management, but also for other professionals and academics throughout the social and behavioral sciences. Readers of The Human Cost of a Management Failure are oriented to the literature on downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering, and to the context of the study. Case material follows, enabling readers to draw their own conclusions with regard to the nature of the organizational change and its effects upon the hospital's employees, and consultants offer their own viewpoints. An update of events at the hospital after the study was conducted is provided along with summaries by each author of his own interpretation and how he interprets the others' views. In this way, readers will get an unusual opportunity to evaluate their own viewpoints against those of the psychoanalytically trained researchers, and to decide for themselves whether there are, in fact; better ways to make an organization economically competitive in the marketplace.".
• catalog contributor b10159088.
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Foreword / Roderick W. Gilkey and Gary R. Lieberman -- 1. Downsizing, Restructuring, and Reengineering: An Overview -- 2. Case Study Context, Development, and Analysis -- 3. The First Set of Interviews -- 4. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 5. The Second Set of Interviews -- 6. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 7. The Third Set of Interviews -- 8. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 9. Epilogue to the General Hospital Case -- 10. The Case in Perspective.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-273) and index.".
• catalog description "Readers of The Human Cost of a Management Failure are oriented to the literature on downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering, and to the context of the study. Case material follows, enabling readers to draw their own conclusions with regard to the nature of the organizational change and its effects upon the hospital's employees, and consultants offer their own viewpoints. An update of events at the hospital after the study was conducted is provided along with summaries by each author of his own interpretation and how he interprets the others' views. In this way, readers will get an unusual opportunity to evaluate their own viewpoints against those of the psychoanalytically trained researchers, and to decide for themselves whether there are, in fact; better ways to make an organization economically competitive in the marketplace.".
• catalog description "This book presents a unique, in-depth examination of the effects that the popular approaches to management organizational change - downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering - had on a major American hospital. The Human Cost of a Management Failure shows what can happen when management insists on accomplishing its ends strictly by the numbers. The authors ask why top management so often, and with seemingly such a cavalier attitude, selects downsizing and similar methods when research indicates that they are all too often such poor choices. Based on a year-long longitudinal study, Allcorn, Baum, Diamond, and Stein report on their interviews with 23 senior and mid-level hospital administrators, then interpret their findings from a psychoanalytic perspective, to make clear that the human side of the workplace can only be ignored at great risk.".
• catalog description "This is essential reading not only for corporate management, but also for other professionals and academics throughout the social and behavioral sciences.".
• catalog extent "xx, 276 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1567200028 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "1996 F-334".
• catalog subject "362.1/1/068 20".
• catalog subject "Corporate reorganizations Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Downsizing of organizations Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Health Care Reform economics United States Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Health Care Reform economics United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "Health Care Reform organization & administration United States Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Health Care Reform organization & administration United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "Hospital Administrators psychology United States Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Hospital Administrators psychology United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "Hospital Restructuring United States Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Hospital Restructuring United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "Hospitals Administration Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Hospitals Administration Psychological aspects.".
• catalog subject "Hospitals Management".
• catalog subject "Organizational Innovation United States Case Reports.".
• catalog subject "Organizational Innovation United States Interview.".
• catalog subject "RA971 .H766 1996".
• catalog subject "Reengineering (Management) Case studies.".
• catalog subject "United States".
• catalog subject "WX 150 H918 1996".
• catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Roderick W. Gilkey and Gary R. Lieberman -- 1. Downsizing, Restructuring, and Reengineering: An Overview -- 2. Case Study Context, Development, and Analysis -- 3. The First Set of Interviews -- 4. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 5. The Second Set of Interviews -- 6. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 7. The Third Set of Interviews -- 8. Case Interpretations and Overview -- 9. Epilogue to the General Hospital Case -- 10. The Case in Perspective.".
• catalog title "The human cost of a management failure : organizational downsizing at General Hospital / Seth Allcorn ... [et al.] ; foreword by Roderick W. Gilkey and Gary R. Lieberman.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".