{"product_id":"towards-organizational-fitness-a-guide-to-diagnosis-and-treatment-by-gerry-randell-and-john-toplis-9781472422620","title":"Towards Organizational Fitness: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment. by Gerry Randell and John Toplis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gerry Randell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Structural Adjustment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWork organizations can lose their fitness and become sick, just as people can. Just like people, they may become both physically and behaviourally sick; physically sick when plant and equipment breaks down or the money runs out; behaviourally sick when the resources are badly managed or the staff become alienated. Gerry Randell and John Toplis' Towards Organizational Fitness addresses two main issues: firstly, how to investigate and manage problems involving people at work - a task analogous to that of a medical doctor working with a sick patient; secondly, how to assess and develop the capability and fitness of an organization - like a medical doctor who wishes to improve a patient's health. The message of this book is clear, that organizations should not proceed to change any of their policies, procedures, processes or practices until a systematic thorough diagnosis of the root cause underpinning the need to change has taken place. The process of diagnosis that leads to a technically sound, administratively convenient, politically defensible and socially acceptable decision to change an organization in some way is fraught with difficulty. Towards Organizational Fitness provides managers with a conceptual and practical path through this complex and difficult arena.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45236665843863,"sku":"9781472422620","price":12867.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472422620.webp?v=1769213958","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/towards-organizational-fitness-a-guide-to-diagnosis-and-treatment-by-gerry-randell-and-john-toplis-9781472422620","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}