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

By Will Schultz and Will Schutz

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555426123
• ISBN13: 9781555426125
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

What a helpful book!!

I found this book completely helpful to know myself better and to know how the relationships work. Although my native tongue is spanish, I find it very easy and friendly to read it in english. I have answered the most of the questions about inclusion, control, openness and now I try to have a better quality of relationship every day. I understand the reactions that come from me and the different groups around me. This book helps me to be a better woman every day. Thanks Will Schutz for this gift!!!

A clear read on interpersonal behaviors.

This book is easy to read and the concepts are key in teams, groups, and one-on-one relationships. Shutz creates many opportunities to apply the concepts to real life and use the information to improve the way in which people relate to one another.

Schutz's Magnum Opus...a phenomenal workplace breakthrough.

The best exposition of how to truly succeed in business. Will Schutz strips away the myths of personal dynamism and strategic planning as foundations of leading workers in business today. Schutz, writing with elegance, simplicity and stark clarity builds a compelling case for basing business success on telling the truth,with personal awareness, in every situation. The author mixes the rational, scientific approach to business leadership with a superbly crafted series of right-brained activities such as imagery and drawing on memories. Highly recommended for anyone tired of trying to achieve higher productivity through successive reorganizations and "downsizing."