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The Social Organization
Developing Employee Connections and Relationships for Improved Business Performance
Facilitate collaboration - and therefore the sharing of knowledge and skills - with this guide to building social capital for improving business performance.
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EAN: 9780749480110
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Full of practical advice for HR and other business professionals, The Social Organization is a clear guide to addressing the urgent need for companies to shift their focus from developing individuals to enabling networks and relationships between employees. Case studies from leading companies such as Whole Foods, P&G, The Cleveland Clinic, Spotify and Cisco illustrate how relationship-based strategies can be implemented successfully to increase organizational performance.
Following a foreword by Dave Ulrich, Part One of The Social Organization explores the context of social capital and analyses how and why HR and others responsible for talent management need to foster and develop social capabilities. Part Two provides practical guidance for developing higher quality connections and social capital by improving the alignment and effectiveness of organizational architectures, including through workplace design. Part Three outlines how HR and related professionals can identify and implement appropriate changes throughout the whole employee life cycle: this includes initial recruitment and job design, social learning, performance management, employee retention, talent management, organization development and the role of social media and other technology as well as social analytics. The Social Organization is an essential book for all professionals needing to develop the social capital of their organizations for improved performance.
About the authors
Jon Ingham is a consultant, trainer, writer and speaker on strategic people and organizational management with a particular focus on social relationships. Based in the UK but operating globally, he works with HR, IT and Property departments to increase the impact they have in their businesses and helps business leaders and HR teams develop their own strategic capabilities. He is a well-known HR blogger and has been recognised as a top global influencer in talent management.
Table of contents
- Section - 00: Introduction;
- Section - PART ONE: Strategic management of people, organization and relationships;
- Section - 01: Locating the value in people management;
- Section - 02: Adding and creating more value;
- Section - 03: Linking activities with human and organizational outcomes;
- Section - 04: Competing and cooperating through social relationships;
- Section - 05: Developing social capital in your business;
- Section - PART TWO: Creating a social architecture;
- Section - 06: Organizing people to do work;
- Section - 07: Selecting an organization structure – traditional opportunities;
- Section - 08: Selecting an organization structure – new opportunities;
- Section - 09: Enabling the organization;
- Section - 10: Designing the workplace;
- Section - PART THREE: Tending an organizational society;
- Section - 11: Recruiting, managing and developing people;
- Section - 12: Facilitating dyads, triads, groups and organization effectiveness;
- Section - 13: Using social technologies and analytics;
Reviews
James Cullens, Executive Director, Group HR & Marcomms, W S Atkins plc
This book is a must read for anyone responsible for driving the performance and culture of an organization, whether CEO or HR practitioner. Grounded in theory and practice, it takes the reader on a journey of how to evolve their people strategy, with rich, illustrative case studies from a variety of industry sectors.
Céline Schillinger, Head, Quality Innovation & Engagement, Sanofi Pasteur
This is the book that was missing to social enterprise practitioners of any function - HR, IT, Operations or... Quality. Bringing together input from multiple disciplines, Jon's book provides compelling insights about how to make an organization greater than the sum of its parts. A must read.
David Frost, Organizational Development Director, Total Produce
This is a fantastic book for all strategic organization development practitioners. It provides best practice guidance supported by robust underlying principles and excellent case studies. The reader will be challenged to reconsider their own assumptions and attitudes towards organization development
Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University Management School
If you are going to take networks seriously - and after reading this book you would understand why you must - then you need to learn how to better manage them. Taking an organization development perspective, The Social Organization shows how social capital helps organizations create value, compete and collaborate.
Lesley Giles, Director, The Work Foundation
Jon provides an important contribution to ensuring that in future we develop more successful organizations, which make the most of people, not only individually but in how they work effectively together through teams, networks and communities. A must read for helping to ensure the future of Good Work for many and not just a privileged few.
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development, Statoil and Chairman, Beyond Budgeting Roundtable
Jon Ingham draws on his rich experience as both HR Director and consultant, providing key insights from academia matched with great case stories. He extracts the essentials of what must be addressed for an organization to perform to its full potential. Highly readable and highly recommendable.
Tanmay Vora, Country Head and Director (R&D), Basware, Author and Blogger
Jon brings his years of experience and offers a treasure trove of useful insights to build social capital within organizations and weave an ecosystem of high performance.
Tim Gardner, Director, Organizational Effectiveness, Kimberly-Clark
Organization Design, as a discipline, is frequently dominated by strategy, structure, and fitting people into roles. In this book, Jon takes the discipline beyond that to recognize designers should think more completely about how processes and technology tools enable an organization to leverage employee knowledge through collaboration.
Gene Carr, Global Workplace Strategy Lead, The Kellogg Company
Jon Ingham's book The Social Organization is a well supported study of examining human capital and the activities necessary to increase business performance. His Chapter on 'Designing the Workplace' is spot on as an enabler for increasing employee satisfaction and productivity.
Harald Schirmer, Manager, Digital Transformation and Change, Continental
I would love to see our HR decision makers reading Jon Ingham's great food for thought - rooted in many very relevant case studies and references... The author's analytic approach, staying close to the facts and studies, makes this book a sound base for his conclusions - it is mind-opening on the basis of great observations. After reading it, I felt empowered and engaged to drive my own social/digital/organizational transformation.
Dr Hans-Juergen Sturm, Head of Collaboration, Content and Portals, Amadeus IT Group
This book is a compendium of concepts and thoughts enabling understanding of the evolution and functioning of organizations. It combines a theoretical background with practical examples from leading companies. What makes it particularly interesting is the combination of different viewpoints, through the lens of many different disciplines. I enjoyed reading and learning.
David Gurteen, Director, Gurteen Knowledge
In The Social Organization, Jon Ingham takes an insightful look at organizations from a social perspective. He reminds us what we already know but tend to forget - that organizations are social communities of people and that to understand and manage them well we need to pay attention to human disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and neuroscience.
Nicolas Rolland, Head of Engie University, Engie
This book is the guide to understanding the social organization, with a cross-disciplinary point of view focusing on how it creates value. Ingham presents a model to make this happen. He provides readers with new and relevant perspectives on people and organization development approaches and on how these create important outcomes.
Philippe Bonnet, Vice President, Human Resources, Global Head, Learning and Development, Essilor International SA
Through a very complete and engaging journey in the The Social Organization dimension, Jon Ingham is shifting our focus out of the traditional boundaries and usual management approaches. He is helping us to discover, to design and to manage what will be the future and how to get the best from our people capabilities by creating a unique, successful organizational and social system dynamic.
Sue Evans, former Head of HR and Organizational Development, Warwickshire County Council and President 2016-2017, Public Sector People Managers Association
This book is a must for public sector HR professionals. It captures the essence of good practice, is full of creative but sensible thinking and opens up the mind to what is possible. Our people are not just assets, they are a precious resource and implementing even a fraction of what is in here will make a difference to them and to your business.
Andrew Campbell, Ashridge Executive Education and author of "Designing Effective Organizations" and "Operating Model Canvas"
I define good organization as capable people working well together. Jon Ingham takes the idea of relationships much further. Social capital, he argues, is enhanced by good organization design and by other design choices, such as the use of technology. While Jon likes to position people management as the most important activity of all (his organization value chain), he takes a business rather than an HR view.
- This book is a must read for anyone responsible for driving the performance and culture of an organization, whether CEO or HR practitioner. Grounded in theory and practice, it takes the reader on a journey of how to evolve their people strategy, with rich, illustrative case studies from a variety of industry sectors.
- James Cullens, Executive Director, Group HR & Marcomms, W S Atkins plc
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