Companies spend time and effort developing their employees - their most important asset - but they often forget to consider the company structure, culture, environment and processes required to help the newly upskilled individuals thrive. The Human Workplace is a practical guide which shows how this can be achieved by taking a truly people-centric approach to organizational development.
Exploring how people-centred organizations behave and evolve, the book covers how to use design thinking to create optimal organizational structures, how to make a business a community, how to use communication to inform and empower people and how to use technology to allow employees to work more efficiently.
Packed with interviews and case studies from Microsoft, Schneider Electric, CGI, Universal, Lego, SAP, BBC Worldwide and other global companies that have benefited from a people-centred approach, The Human Workplace redefines our view of the organization, its relationship with people and how we interact with it. It is an essential guide for all HR and OD professionals seeking to get the right people in the right places doing the right things at the right time.

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INDEX
7 Digital 14
absenteeism 85
Acrylicize 194–96
action plan 173–74, 207
active blockers 184, 185
activism
extremism and 34
Greenpeace 33
positive activism 34–35, 36, 204–05
adoption curve 65–66, 185
Airbnb 17, 19, 50, 51–52
Aitkenhead, Paula 75–78
Alibaba 50
All About People 2016 78, 84
always-on workers 6
Amazon 14, 79, 108
annual appraisal 105, 108, 109, 149
annual leave 61–62
Apple 14, 74, 179
iPhone 65
artistic workplace 194–96
Atlas, David 138–39
attendance
contribution and 84–85, 149, 154–55
performance and 154–55
attraction funnel 90
authenticity 32, 34, 139, 209
automation 137, 179–81
robots 24, 80, 105, 179, 180
autonomy 20–21, 22
Bacanu, Diana 75–78
Baréz-Brown, Chris 74, 106–08
Baumann, Peter 126–29
BBC Worldwide 29–32
BDG architec...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 01 Getting to grips with the basics
- 02 Building your structure
- 03 All about people
- 04 In all the right places
- 05 Turning it into action
- 06 Communications and technology
- 07 Getting there: making the change
- 08 Final thoughts
- Index
- Backcover
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