Work, Workers, Working and Management

• In Search of Quality    .htm

• Inside the Process Box

• LAMPS - Survey of Leadership and Management Practices

• Making Decisions Like Ben Franklin

• Making Work Productive: An Essay on Work and Work Control Systems    .htm

• Managing Communities of Engagement: Making Players Out of Spectators, Cynics & Deadwood

• Now What? What to Do After Scrapping Your Company's Performance Appraisal System    .htm

• Outcomes - Actions - Resources: The OAR Action Planning Model

• Performance Appraisal: A Final Criticism

• Project Management and Change Management

• The Project Manager

• The Propositions of James D. Thompson from Organizations in Action

• Prototyping: Systems Development in Record Time    .htm

• Rebels and Robots, Stars and Slugs: Who Fills Out Your Performance Appraisal?

• Relationship in Organization: V..A. Graicunas' Original Paper about the Span of Control

• Roadmaps to Results

• The Shift to Knowledge Work     .htm

• The Span of Control and the Formulas of V.A. Graicunas     .htm

• Thinking About Mergers

• Two Key Principles of Productivity Improvement

• Understanding Work and Work Control Systems

• The Urgent Should Displace the Important

• Visualizing the Payoffs of Employee Engagement

• What Do You Do with An Egg-Sucking Dog?

• What's Your ROY? (Return on You)

• Writing Good Work Objectives     .htm

Related to Control Theory

• A Control Theory View of Human Performance in the Workplace

• The Autonomous Performer

• The GAP-ACT Model of Human Performance

• Helping People Hit their Performance Targets

• Manage Your Own Performance: No One Else Can

• The Manager's Job: Achieve Stable Results Under Varying Conditions

• From Proximate to Ultimate Results: Linking Actions with Outcomes

• A Performance Puzzle Solved: An Application of the Target (GAP-ACT) Model