The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Shows how to enhance our performance and improve our organizations by developing healthier self-concepts of ourselves and in others. A personal development and leadership guide to creating a work environment where self-determination and openness are the rule, offers strategies for heightening our awareness of ourselves and others as a key factor in shaping our relationships to work.

Offers a field-tested approach to improving organizational effectiveness, introducing innovative tools and exercises--including the concordance model of decision making, the Team Compatibility Index for team building, the Work Relations Index for improved individual performance, and the leader as completer concept of leadership--to promote creativity and openness at work.

• Radical Collaboration: Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships
• The Truth Option
• The Interpersonal Underworld
• Elements of Encounter
• Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author
• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
• Resolving Conflicts at Work: Ten Strategies for Everyone on the Job