Trust within and between organizations

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William Seidman and Richard Grbavac

In every company, a select few produce more, sell more, and deliver better results. These stellar performers consistently outshine their peers-and achieve more than most would believe possible. If only these people could be cloned! The Star Factor delivers the next best thing: a unique system for unlocking their wisdom, transforming that knowledge into actionable steps, and helping other employees internalize these new attitudes and behaviors, bringing much-needed change to the whole organization. The book's proven Affirmative Leadership methodology has produced astonishing results for companies in a range of industries: The world's largest semiconductor manufacturer doubled its accuracy rate for inventory management forecasting; and a top fast food chain dramatically reduced its employee turnover. Supported by recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, including research on motivation, learning, and achievement, The Star Factor presents a sustainable, people-centered system to build a culture of greatness that starts with the stars and spreads to every corner and every level of the organization.

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Richard A. Goodman

The contributors to this book review the postindustrial subculture, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and cross-contextual inquiry, a central idiom of postindustrial organizational life. The essays consider alternative methods of understanding media that add variety to "meanings" within and without organizations. This multi-method approach to the search for meaning and the limits of words and symbols in expressing meaning generates a personally interpretive basis for science.

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Katinka Bijlsma-Frankem, Rosalinde Klein Woolthuis

"This book challenges the current thinking on trust largely based on studies in stable contexts, by presenting new empirical studies of trust and trust building in a number of less stable, less institutionalized settings. These contexts are gaining in prominence given the globalization and virtualization of organizational relations, development of high velocity markets, and the growing importance of intangible resources."--Jacket.

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Sumantra Ghoshal and D. Eleanor Westney

"The original edition of Organization Theory and the Multinational Corporation was a seminal influence in bringing together organization theory and perspectives on the multinational corporation from international management. Leading scholars from both fields contributed to the book, and it quickly became an important resource for researchers, students, and those with a broad interest in either field. This new edition, which updates the original chapters to reflect recent work and includes, a new chapter on institutional contexts, makes this important work once again widely available."--Jacket.