Hierarchy and Bureaucracy Are Not Synonyms

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 12, 2008 

Bureaucracies will always have hierarchies, but not all hierarchies are bureaucratic. To review from a former post, if an organization has even two layers, it has a hierarchy.? Would you really want to work in an organization with no hierarchy? No Hierarchy? All decisions need be made by vote or consensus ? hiring, firing, strategy, […]

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Harvard Business Asks – Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 11, 2008 

Jim Heskett has posed this question over at Harvard Business Online. My Comment is Proving of Interest I’ve posted my comment with a conglomeration of thoughts and links?from Mission Minded Management.? Google Analytics tells me that my comment is bringing international traffic into Mission Minded Management.? The ideas are piquing interest. Rightful Attribution – Elliott […]

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Operationalizing Engagement via Managerial Leadership

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 10, 2008 

Three of Four Employees?Would Leave if They Could? The most recent Wall Street Journal/Society for Human Resource Management survey reports that as many as 75 percent of your employees are exploring other opportunities. Consolidated Engagement Study Results? In “Employee Engagement: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications,” The Conference Board consolidated 12 major studies […]

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Requisite Managerial Authority Four – Employee Deselection versus Termination

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 6, 2008 

Creating an Accountability Culture Today is post four on the Requisite Organization model?s four minimum managerial authorities that are prerequisites for creating an accountability culture. For those arriving late,?welcome, click to read?number one, two, and three. Managerial Authority Four: Managers shall have the authority to initiate removal of a non-performing employee from his role. Once […]

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Creating An Accountability Culture – Prerequisite Three

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 5, 2008 

Today is post three on the Requisite Organization model’s four minimum managerial authorities that are prerequisites for creating an accountability culture. For those arriving via search engine, here is requisite authority 1, and here you can find number two. Requisite Authority Three: Managers shall review, recognize, and reward their employees’ effectiveness. When written, this seems […]

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Stemming Resource Thievery through Requisite Authority

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 4, 2008 

Do You Enable Your Managers to Lead through Systems Design? Yesterday, I said that the Requisite Organization model posits four minimum managerial authorities that are prerequisites for creating an accountability culture.? Today, I post another requisite authority necessary for accountability. Authority Number Two:? Managers shall assign or authorize all work to direct reports. No earth […]

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Enabling Accountability by Providing Requisite Authority

By Michelle Malay Carter on March 3, 2008 

Managers, by definition, are accountable for the output of their teams, but yet there seem to be so many excuses when things go wrong.? Why is that? Managerial Accountability Requires Managerial Authority If you want managerial accountability within an organization, you must pair it requisite authority.? Otherwise, you might as well be asking managers to […]

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Using Peer Groups to Set CEO Compensation? Keep Good Company

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 27, 2008 

Many organizations set CEO compensation by?using industry peer groups.? With no differentiation of CEO roles being made by work level, this is a huge problem. Mark Van Clieaf, an industry colleague of mine, is a recognized expert in applying a level of work approach to organization design, executive succession, and executive compensation. Matching?CEO Pay?to Work […]

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Harvard Business Discovers Level 6 Work – The Strategy of Combining Two Models

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 26, 2008 

In a former work levels post on strategy, I discussed how migrating a strategy upward by one level of complexity can give an organization a breakaway lead from its competitors operating at the lower level.? From “Or” Thinking to “And” Thinking, i.e. From Level 5 to Level 6 My historical example was that the US […]

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Organization Design – Seek and Ye Shall Find

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 24, 2008 

Thanks to David Zinger of the?Employee Engagement Network who pointed?me toward a stimulating poem by architect Moshe Safdie. He who seeks truth shall find beauty He who seeks beauty shall find vanity He who seeks order shall find gratification He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed He who considers himself a servant of his fellow […]

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