Business decisions, human choices : restoring the partnership between people and their organizations / Lloyd C. Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-181) and index.

1. Dysfunctions in Choice: The Case for Organizational Makeovers -- 2. Politics as the Baseline of Choice: Impacts on Leader Decision Making and the Making of Organizational Psychosis -- 3. Organizational History as the Baseline of Choice: Impacts on Managers and Leader Decision Making and the Makings of Manic-Depressives -- 4. Homogeneity or Diversity as a Baseline of Choice: Impacts on Employee and Customer Decision Making and the Makings of Neurotic Behavior -- Mini-Epilogue: An Assessment of the Current Business Environment: Issues for Consideration in Transforming Businesses -- 5. The Traps that Tear Us Apart: How We Fail in Our Decision Making and Create Organizational and Personal Shame -- 6. Organizational Codependence: A Commonplace Activity -- Mini-Epilogue: Looking at the Traps of Life That Impact Business Decision Making and Corporate Being -- 7. Transforming Business: The Building of Parallel Paradigms That Impact the Business System and the Business Employee.

Dr. Williams contends that over the last 20 years a change has occurred in organizations that has created a syndrome of dysfunctions that are neither good for businesses nor for the people who work in them. Williams sees businesses as living entities, and argues that how they act and react will have an impact on their employees, often a devastating impact. In much the same way as businesses make decisions, people make choices, and seldom are these decisions and choices congruent. Unless disparate self-interests and goals can be reconciled - unless a partnership can be restored between people and their organizations - not only will employees be damaged, but the success of their organization, upon which they depend for their livelihoods, will be jeopardized. How this dangerous situation came about, what it means, and how it can be remedied is the subject of Dr. Williams' book. Research-based and always in touch with the realities of commerce, Dr.
Williams will make business people aware that organizations and their people must become reunited, and then show them how it can be done.