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Collaborating for Results : Silo Working and Relationships that Work.
Title:
Collaborating for Results : Silo Working and Relationships that Work.
Author:
Willcock, David Ian.
ISBN:
9781409464303
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Reviews for Collaborating for Results -- Part I The Individual and the Organisation -- 1 Factors that Influence Behaviour -- 2 Natural Tensions in Working Relationships -- 3 Deeper Obstacles to Working Relationships -- 4 Reviewing the Quality of Working Relationships -- 5 Taking Responsibility in Working Relationships -- 6 Facilitating Improvement in Working Relationships -- Part I Key Point Summary -- Part II The Team, Other Teams and the Organisation -- 7 Factors that Influence Behaviour within and between Teams -- 8 Obstacles to Good Quality Relationships within Teams -- 9 Obstacles to Good Quality Relationships between Teams -- 10 Overcoming Obstacles with Open Teams -- 11 Reviewing Relationships within and between Teams -- 12 Facilitating Improvement in Team Relationships -- Part II Key Point Summary -- Part III The Organisation -- 13 The Implications for Organisation Development -- 14 How Senior Leaders can Increase Collaboration for Results -- 15 Shaping Values and Infrastructure to Improve Collaboration -- 16 How Leaders can Manage the Shadow Side of Change -- 17 Conclusions -- Part III Key Point Summary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Where collaboration is needed and silo working creates barriers to achieving this, the cost to organisations can be very high: a lack of shared learning and innovation; unproductive conflict and stress; and significant financial costs due to programme failures. Collaborating for Results focuses on the human reasons for unproductive silo working in organisations, combining psychology with broader organisation development theory and practice. The central theme is that a visible agenda for building and maintaining working relationships across organisations is required by those seeking competitive advantage. It describes the contours of working relationships at three levels - individual, team and organisation - and proposes practical actions en route to collaboration and high performance. In doing so it acknowledges the complexity of people and relationships, the interrelationship of the three levels and explains the value of developing Open Teams at the heart of an integrated approach to business and organisational development. Organisation silos can feel like different countries, or even parallel worlds. Even in a single organisation, people in separate divisions or teams can talk a different language and have different work cultures that they each find difficult to understand and relate to. David Willcock's Collaborating for Results reframes organisation culture to bridge the divide, develop working relationships that save time and money and improve organisation performance.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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