James E. Tomlinson, Ph.D.
"There are people all over your organization,
who have retired on the job"
Peter Drucker
IMPORTANT: You must select a book to read for this assignment and this must
be approved by your instructor - You will submit
this in writing to me NO LATER THAN THURSDAY October 10. Topic
suggestions will be discussed in class.
Your Book Review will be due Thursday November 30 - THERE WILL BE NO
EXCEPTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your Book Review will
will be 3 -5 pages in length - it will consist of 2 parts - first:
an overview of the material in the book, and second:
your reactions
and application to how this book applies to your study and understanding of
modern organizations and the role of communication
in such organizations. (in other words, WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE BOOK!!!!)
Possible Research Aids: (also visit the Links page for online resources)
This information is organized by: Title - Author - Year - Publisher.
I have
arranged them into some general categories. These are offered as suggestions
to help you with the Research Paper
assignment, the list is meant to help you get started. Many of these books are in the Andruss
Library.
THIS IS NOT AN ALL-INCLUSIVE LIST !!!!
"The
Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations"
"Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-On Guide for Leaders at All
Levels"
by
Jay Galbraith,
Diane Downey,
Amy Kates:
AMACOM - 2001
"301 Ways to Have Fun at Work" David Hemsaath and Leslie
Yerkes,
1997-
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
"Adaptive Enterprise: Creating and Leading Sense-and-Respond
Organizations"
Stephan Haeckel and Adrian Slywotzky, 1999, Harvard Business School Press
"The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up
the Pieces,
Please the Boss and Perpetuate Sick Organizations" Anne Wilson Schaef
and
Diane Fassel, 1990 - Harper Press
"Beyond Certainty: The Changing Worlds of Organizations"
Charles Handy, 1998 - Harvard Business Press
"Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Stragegy"
Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster, 1999, Harvard Business Press.
"Coping With Difficult People" Robert M. Bramson, 1981 - Anchor Press
"The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes" Dinty W. Moore, 1995 -Algonquin Books
"First Things First" Stephen Covey, 1994 -Fireside Publishers
"Getting Employees to Fall in Love With Your Company"
Jim Harris,
1996 - AMACOM Publishing
"How to be a Star at Work" Robert E. Kelley, 1998, Times Press
"Iacocca" Lee Iacocca, 1984 -Bantam Books
"The Intelligent Organization" Gifford and Libba Pinchot, 1998 - Kohler Press
"Killer Interviews" Frederick and Barbara Ball, 1996 - McGraw -Hill
"Knock 'em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Handbook" Martin
Yate, 1998,
Adams Mehdi Press
"Managing People Is Like Herding Cats " Warren Bennis. 1997.
Executive Excellence Publishing.
"Nuts: the story of SouthWest Airlines" Herb Kelleher, 1996 - Bard Press
"Orbiting the Giant Hairball" Gordon MacKenzie, 1998 - Viking Press
"The Road Ahead" Bill Gates, 1995- Viking Penguin Press
"Resumes in Cyberspace: Your Complete Guied to a Computerized Job
Search"
Pat Criscito,1997, Barron Publishers
"Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to
Innovate"
Tom Peters and Michael Schrage, 2000 - Harvard Business School Press
"Smart Moves" Sam Deep and Lyle Sussman, 1990 - Addison Wesley
"Stress and the Manager: Making it Work for You" Karl Albrecht, 1979
-
Simon and Schuster
"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" Stephen Covey, 1989-
Simon and Schuster
"The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work"
Arlie Hochschild, 1997 -Metropolitan Books
"Wakeup Calls - You don't have to sleepwalk through life"
Eric Allenbaugh, 1992 - Discovery Publications
"What Color is your Parachute 1999" Richard Bolles, 1998, Ten Speed Press
"What Were They Thinking" Robert McMath, 1998 - Times Books
"Women on the Line" Ruth Cavendish, 1982 - Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
Leadership
"What Would Machiavelli Do: The Ends Justifies the Meaness"
Stanley Bing, 2000 - Harper Business
"A Passion for Excellence: The Leadership Difference"
Tom Peters, 1985 - Random
House
"1001 Ways to Energize Employees" Bob Nelson, 1998 - Workman Press
"Leaders" Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, 1997 - HarperCollins Press
"Leadership:
a Communication Perspective" Michael Hackman and Craig Johnson,
1996 - Waveland Press
"Leadership,
Organizations, and Culture" Peter Smith and Mark Perterson, 1988 -
Sage Publishers
"Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun" Wess Roberts, 1987 - Warner Books
"Best Boss, Worst Boss" James B. Miller, 1996- Summit Publishing Group
"The E-Myth Manager, Why Management Doesn’t Work and What to DO
about it"
Michael E. Gerber,1998 - Harper/Collins Publishers
"Organizing Genius"
Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman. 1997.
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
"The
Nine Natural Laws of Leadership" Warren Blank. 1995. ANACOM.
Ethics in Modern Organizations
"How Good People Make Tough Choices" Rushworth Kidder, 1996, Fireside Press
Organizations and the Future
“Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated
by Information Technology”
by
Abbe Mowshowitz;
Quorum Books - 2002
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People
Change Their Organizations
by
John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen -Harvard Business School
Press; August 1, 2002
"Seizing the Future" Michael Zey, 1994 - Simon and Schuster
"Thriving on Chaos" Tom Peters, 1987 - Harper and Rowe
"Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Ninties"
Tom Peters, 1992 - Alfred Knopf Press
"What
America Does Right: Companies that put People First" Robert Waterman,
1994, W.W. Norton Press
"The New American Workplace: Transforming Work in the
United States"
Eileen Appelbauam and Rosemary Batt, 1994 - Cornell University Press
"When
Giants Learn to Dance
"Banishing Bureaucracy" David Osborne, 1997 - Addison Wesley
"Toppling
the Pyramids: Redefining the way Companies are Run" Gerald Ross
Michael Kay, 1994 -Times Books
"Re-inventing
the Corporation" John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, 1985 -
Warner
Books
"Managing the Future" Peter Drucker, 1993 - Penguin Press
“Virtual Teams : People Working Across Boundaries with Technology”
by
Jessica Lipnack,
Jeffrey Stamps;
John Wiley & Sons; 2nd edition - 2000
“The Innovator's Dilemma: When New
Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”
by
Clayton M. Christensen,
Harvard Business School
Press; 1997
"Cybercorp" James Martin, 1996 -AMACON Press
"The Death of Distance" Frances Cairncross, 1997- Orion Publishing
"The
Great Convergence - Business Beyond the Digital Revolution"
Forbes Magazine Special Edition
October 4, 1999
"The Road Ahead," Bill Gates, 1996 -Penguin Press
"Megatrends: Asia" John Naisbitt, 1996 - Simon and Schuster
"Dealing with the Chinese: A
Practical Guide for Business" Scott Seligman, 1989 -
Warner Books
"Theory Z: The Japanese Challenge to America" Willam Ouchi, 1983 - Avon
"Japan-Think Ameri-Think" Robert Collins, 1992 - Viking Press
"Made in Japan" Akio Morita, 1986 - Dutton Publishing
"Communicating in Multinational Organizations" Richard L. Wiseman
1994 - Sage Publishers
"Classic" Theories/Criticism/Organizational Theory
"Organization and Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Modern Theories"
Nicos Mouzelis
1967 - AldinePublishing
"Modern Organizations" Amitai Etzioni, 1964 - Prentice Hall
"The Death of Common Sense" Philip K. Howard, 1994 - Random House
"The Third Wave" Alvin Toffler, 1981 - Bantam Books
"In Search of Excellence" Tom Peters and Bob Waterman, 1982 - Harper and Rowe
"The
Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American
Corporation" Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 1983 - Simon and Schuster
"What
They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School"
Mark McCormack1986 Bantam Publishers
"Out of the Crisis" W. Edwards Deming, 1986 - MIT Press
"Deming Management at Work" Mary Walton, 1990 - Perigee Press
"The Scanlon Plan: A Frontier in Labor-Managment Cooperation"
Frederick
Lesieur
1987 - MIT Press
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