The Human Element: Productivity, Self-Esteem, and the Bottom Line (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Shows how to enhance our performance and improve our organizations by developing healthier self-concepts of ourselves and in others. A personal development and leadership guide to creating a work environment where self-determination and openness are the rule, offers strategies for heightening our awareness of ourselves and others—a key factor in shaping our relationships to work."I have followed Will's work for many years. I find The Human Element one of the few approaches courageous enough to deal with the feelings of human beings and recognize their centrality in improving the social weal."—John Vasconcellos, assemblyman, twenty-second district, and chairman, Ways and Means Committee, California Legislature "No other book or process so eloquently addresses the human perspective to leading change as The Human Element. Putting the fundamentals of the Human Element model to use allowed me to drastically redirect my personal and professional life and yielded greater results with much less effort and strife.... Within a year, employee turnover was down 75 percent, every budget objective was exceeded, and morale was improved."—Conrad L. Smith, plant manager, James River Corporation

WILL SCHUTZ is president of Will Schutz Associates, an international training and consulting firm that helps organizations improve the quality of relationships that lead to greater personal empowerment and group productivity. An early architect of Esalen, the acclaimed center for New Age research and practice, Schutz has served on the faculties of Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Albert Einstein Medical School. His FIRO-B questionnaire is internationally recognized as one of the premier instruments in the field of human relations. He is author of eight books, including Joy (1967), a national bestseller, and The Truth Option (1984).