Books Details
Author : Dan Lyons Pages : 272 pages Publisher : Hachette Books Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 031656186X ISBN-13 : 9780316561860
Books Descriptions
At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about "wellness,"
millions of workers--in virtually every industry--are deeply unhappy. Why did work
become so miserable? Who is responsible? And does any company have a model for
doing it right?For two years, Lyons ventured in search of answers. From the
innovation-crazed headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, to a cult-like
"Holocracy" workshop in San Francisco, and to corporate trainers who specialize in ...
Legos, Lyons immersed himself in the often half-baked and frequently lucrative world
of what passes for management science today. He shows how new tools, workplace
practices, and business models championed by tech's empathy-impaired power
brokers have shattered the social contract that once existed between companies and
their employees. These dystopian beliefs--often masked by pithy slogans like "We're
a Team, Not a Family"--have dire consequences: millions of workers who are subject
to constant
