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RO Bibliography Page
Global Organization Design Society is pleased to host this authoritative and comprehensive Introduction and Bibliography on Jaques' work - now in its Fourth Edition.
This compilation is authored by Kenneth Craddock.
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About the RO Bibliography
In Ken Craddock's own words,
"This Bibliography is in two parts because it grew too big.
As you follow your own trail of research into this material you will begin to sense the dynamics that have been surrounding this theory for half a century, its power, and why it is resisted. I believe this theory is fundamental to the future of organization studies."
March 2007 - KCC
Part I
This an Introduction to Elliott Jaques and Wilfred Brown, to requisite organization theory, and to the bibliography itself. It provides a context for the articles, chapters and books in each section of Part II and shows why this theory is so important and so expansive. The theses and dissertations have their own introductory essays. The one for those written explicitly on the theory is extensive. I have also tried to point out some of the features of its future development.
The second half of Part I consists of topic lists of the works in Part II. Some were published as part of a series. Others I have brought together to show their substance as a body of knowledge or to show their power, such as replication studies and cases.
Note - This searchable Introduction PDF file is approximately 1.0 MB in size to download and is 210 pages in length to print.
Part II
This Fourth Edition of the Annotated Bibliography gathers in one place more than 50 years of studies on R.O. theory and application. The widest set of keywords have scanned the major search engines (and many minor ones). It includes over 2,000 research studies directly on the theory (including 77 PhDs) and over 1,200 related studies.
This collection will smartly guide your research and your practice.
New findings include:
- its adaption countrywide by the Japanese keiretsu groups in 1969;
- its introduction to GE in the 1970s and its use in selecting its top managers and CEOs since then;
- the transfer of the Japanese system to the U.S. and the U.K (under Japanese management); and
- and its adoption by some 400 firms in the West.
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Firms can use the Bibliography to...
- verify the concepts behind the theory;
- to discover its practical links to other strategic initiatives such as total quality, six sigma, value engineering, and talent development;
- to locate precedents within the industry;
- to sharply reduce internal sexism, racism and ageism; and
- to validate claims by CEOs who have adopted R.O. that it generates top-line growth of 30% and more a year.
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Note - This fully searchable Bibliography PDF file is approximately 4.5 MB in size to download and is 1,010 pages in length to print.
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This is the fourth edition of the Annotated Bibliography. (Updated: March 2007)
(The third edition was revised in May 2004)
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Download the PDFs
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To download Ken Craddock's works, we request that you fill out a brief on-line survey (via the link below) about your interest in Requisite Organization, Stratified Systems Theory or
Levels of Work Complexity. We can then notify you by e-mail when revisions of these reports are available and when new RO papers are published on-line.
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Ken Craddock - Biography
Kenneth Craddock
530 East 84th Street, 1F
New York, NY 10028
H: (212) 628-2986
W: (212) 854-5767
email: kcc6@columbia.edu or KenCraddock@gmail.com
or kencraddock@verizon.net
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Ken Craddock is a consultant specializing in requisite organization and in quality. He has developed insightful recommendations integrating the operational concepts of Elliott Jaques and W. Edwards Deming. He provides support to managers for organizational transformation to increase effectiveness and improve strategy.
In the early 1990s Craddock was assistant to W. Edwards Deming, the man who gave quality to the Japanese. He has consulted to firms of varying sizes, including a Fortune 100 firm, where he trained mid-level managers on creative thinking in week-long sessions. He has also worked as an analyst and management planner, as a consultant for metropolitan government, and supervised development of a PC-based tracking system to monitor services provided to clients. As a management planning analyst, he developed the first MBO business plans for 16 offices, with 2300 staff and $146 million budget.
Craddock completed an on-line annotated research bibliography on Requisite Leadership Theory after his M.A. in Business History at Columbia University. His thesis was Requisite Leadership: A Neglected Model of Organization Effectiveness, which described the history and development of this theory.
While at Columbia he initiated surveys which led to the first revision of the business school curriculum in 30 years, made proposals to improve morale, wrote cases and helped develop new courses. He has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business on quality, strategy, and requisite organization design.
He also holds an M.P.A. degree in Management from the Kennedy School at Harvard. He has published 8 articles and papers and has made several conference presentations.
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