Joseph Boyett, Author & Consultant
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Workplace 2000
by Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn
Picture a hyper-speed workplace with no time clocks, no supervisors, no job
classifications, no definite work assignments, no hourly wages, no automatic promotions,
and no defects in production and no complaints from consumers. Imagine, as well,
workers in charge of their own work, following leaders not managers, and being as
concerned with the company's books as their own bank accounts. And if you have a hard
time believing this and so much more will happen, witness how much of it has happened
already and what it has achieved at Nucor Steel, Preston Trucking, Wal-Mart Stores,
Motorola, Emery Air freight, and many other businesses.
Along with this compelling combination of vision and fact, Workplace 2000 offers invaluably
practical personal guidance as well. It charts the education, skills, and attitudes that new
positions in the new workplace will demand, and the businesses and regions most likely
to prosper. Plain on every page is the authoritative expertise of authors who are not
academic theorists, but well-known management consultants who specialize in promoting
change in management/employee practices and organizational culture, and who have
helped change the way a host of leading firms do business.
Workplace 2000 is the classic book that predicted how the workplace would change in the
1990s and beyond.
REVIEWS
"Read Workplace 2000 if you want to prepare yourself, your executives and and your
company for the future. With clear and concise prose, Boyett and Conn describe the
changes you have to make to be competitive in the 21st century--the coming revolution in
the workplace that we must make happen." F. KENNETH IVERSON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO,
NUCOR CORPORATION
"Excellent....I doubt that you will find anywhere a clearer explanation of the depth and
breadth of change reshaping American business....Workplace 2000 is filled with invaluable
advice for everyone who wants to succeed in the new organization." PAUL FULTON,
PRESIDENT, SARA LEE CORPORATION
"Truly a visionary classic that should be on the 'must' reading list of every manager in
American industry. Its great value lies in providing a total focus on the real key to
achieving global competitiveness--our human resources...a compelling case for the
necessity of our making this revolution happen." JAMES D. EDWARDS, PRESIDENT AND
CEO, SPENCER INDUSTRIES
"As important as In Search of Excellence and High-Involvement Management. This book
should be read by everyone who wants to prepare his or her organization for the
economic, competitive and workplace realities that face us." WILLIAM L. GINNODO,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
"Workplace 2000 describes the future of work in America--a future that has already
changed the lives of millions, with millions more of us to be affected....Not since In Search
of Excellence has a book so clearly pointed out new directions for world class competitors
as Boyett and Conn do in Workplace 2000." WILLIAM B. WERTHER, JR., PH.D., FRIEDLAND
PROFESSOR OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Future American Workplace
Chapter 2. Future Structure and Culture
Chapter 3. Future Information Sharing
Chapter 4. Motivating Workers in Workplace 2000
Chapter 5. A Different Type of Pay
Chapter 6. Leadership in the New American Workplace
Chapter 7. Experiments in Workplace 2000
Chapter 8. Employees Take Charge
Chapter 9. Education and the new Workplace
Chapter 10. The Demands and Expectations of the New Workplace
Chapter 11. Achieving World-Class Performance in Quality, Service and Innovation
by Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn
Picture a hyper-speed workplace with no time clocks, no supervisors, no job
classifications, no definite work assignments, no hourly wages, no automatic promotions,
and no defects in production and no complaints from consumers. Imagine, as well,
workers in charge of their own work, following leaders not managers, and being as
concerned with the company's books as their own bank accounts. And if you have a hard
time believing this and so much more will happen, witness how much of it has happened
already and what it has achieved at Nucor Steel, Preston Trucking, Wal-Mart Stores,
Motorola, Emery Air freight, and many other businesses.
Along with this compelling combination of vision and fact, Workplace 2000 offers invaluably
practical personal guidance as well. It charts the education, skills, and attitudes that new
positions in the new workplace will demand, and the businesses and regions most likely
to prosper. Plain on every page is the authoritative expertise of authors who are not
academic theorists, but well-known management consultants who specialize in promoting
change in management/employee practices and organizational culture, and who have
helped change the way a host of leading firms do business.
Workplace 2000 is the classic book that predicted how the workplace would change in the
1990s and beyond.
REVIEWS
"Read Workplace 2000 if you want to prepare yourself, your executives and and your
company for the future. With clear and concise prose, Boyett and Conn describe the
changes you have to make to be competitive in the 21st century--the coming revolution in
the workplace that we must make happen." F. KENNETH IVERSON, CHAIRMAN AND CEO,
NUCOR CORPORATION
"Excellent....I doubt that you will find anywhere a clearer explanation of the depth and
breadth of change reshaping American business....Workplace 2000 is filled with invaluable
advice for everyone who wants to succeed in the new organization." PAUL FULTON,
PRESIDENT, SARA LEE CORPORATION
"Truly a visionary classic that should be on the 'must' reading list of every manager in
American industry. Its great value lies in providing a total focus on the real key to
achieving global competitiveness--our human resources...a compelling case for the
necessity of our making this revolution happen." JAMES D. EDWARDS, PRESIDENT AND
CEO, SPENCER INDUSTRIES
"As important as In Search of Excellence and High-Involvement Management. This book
should be read by everyone who wants to prepare his or her organization for the
economic, competitive and workplace realities that face us." WILLIAM L. GINNODO,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION
"Workplace 2000 describes the future of work in America--a future that has already
changed the lives of millions, with millions more of us to be affected....Not since In Search
of Excellence has a book so clearly pointed out new directions for world class competitors
as Boyett and Conn do in Workplace 2000." WILLIAM B. WERTHER, JR., PH.D., FRIEDLAND
PROFESSOR OF EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Future American Workplace
Chapter 2. Future Structure and Culture
Chapter 3. Future Information Sharing
Chapter 4. Motivating Workers in Workplace 2000
Chapter 5. A Different Type of Pay
Chapter 6. Leadership in the New American Workplace
Chapter 7. Experiments in Workplace 2000
Chapter 8. Employees Take Charge
Chapter 9. Education and the new Workplace
Chapter 10. The Demands and Expectations of the New Workplace
Chapter 11. Achieving World-Class Performance in Quality, Service and Innovation
