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Jon explores some of his ideas, including the role of communities and other social groups in organization design, and how social technologies can be aligned with these types of group, as well as other factors that can make them work effectively. Purchase your copy of The Social Organization from publishers Kogan Page and get a 20% discount using code: AHRTSO20 (plus their usual free shipping to UK or US). 
Take a deep dive into digital transformation with Jon Ingham.Find out how HR functions are evolving in 2019 and beyond. Jon will explain what is digitalisation, outline the key drivers, steps organisations are taking to digitise their HR function and the new skills HR professionals will be expected to demonstrate in the new business landscape of industry 4.0.
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The Social Organization is recommended by People Management as a book of the year 2017!
THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION by JON INGHAM
Extracts from the Foreword by Prof. Dave Ulrich, University of Michigan Partner, The RBL Group "To understand how organizations operate requires insights from many disciplines. Jon does an outstanding job drawing on theory and research from multiple disciplines to define an organization, including: psychology, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, behavioural economics, and strategy. Each of the disciplines offers insights into how organizations operate by creating a social organization. This social organization can then be architected to deliver sustainable value. Through his “organization prioritization model” (OPM), Jon evolves how to diagnose and improve social organizations." Human Resource (HR) professionals who want to deliver value can better do so by understanding and creating the right organization capabilities. Because of Jon’s deep background in HR, he is able to offer insights on the evolving HR profession in every chapter. He talks about how HR can link to strategy through capabilities (chapter 1 and 2), how to innovate HR practices in engagement, recruiting, careers, performance management, rewards, diversity, and development (chapter 3). He also shows integration of these HR practices can be used to deliver the right organization capabilities required to win. HR is not about HR, but about the value HR creates for the business and its stakeholders. HR analytics (chapter 14) should evolve from scorecards and insights to business impact. He offers not only ideas, but tools and examples of leading companies like Zappos, HCL, IBM, Cisco, Xerox, Morning Star, Spotify, Whole Foods, and many others." 
Jon Ingham's article on organisation design published by HR Magazine, October 2019.
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Jon Ingham discusses The Social Organization
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Endorsements
If you are going to take networks seriously – and after reading this book you would understand why you must – then you need to learn how to better manage them. Taking an organization development perspective, The Social Organization shows how social capital helps organizations create value, compete and collaborate. Having made a persuasive argument, it goes on to explain how HR managers should think about recruitment, develop groups, and hone their social technologies and analytics. It is replete with useful models and frameworks, and moves our understanding on from an intellectual acceptance of the ideas into practical ways of working.
Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University Management School
Jon provides an important contribution to ensuring that in future we develop more successful organisations, which make the most of people, not only individually but in how they work effectively together through teams, networks and communities. This is something at the Work Foundation we think is important to securing “good work”. Over recent decades we have seen huge changes driven by powerful forces such as technology and globalisation, which are radically disrupting traditional business models and ways of working. Dramatic headlines, capturing widespread media coverage, paint bleak and gloomy futures for many, with ideas of machines replacing people and the spread of precarious work, as employment opportunities polarise and businesses cut costs. But, in this technologically-driven, information age, it is now more important than ever that we do not lose sight of the importance of the human contribution at work. Good Work calls for more people centred practices, where work is meaningful, employees are happier, more motivated and can make significant contributions to business success. In this regard Jon’s thoughts on how to unlock the real value of human beings in organisations individually and collectively is a really welcome addition to current debates. Jon provides some powerful insights, interpreting the latest evidence through his extensive practical, business experience. A must read for helping to ensure the future of Good Work for many and not just a privileged few.
Lesley Giles, Director, The Work Foundation
Jon Ingham draws on his rich experience as both HR Director and consultant, providing key insights from academia matched with great case stories. He extracts the essentials of what must be addressed for an organisation to perform to its full potential. Highly readable and highly recommendable.
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development, Statoil and Chairman, Beyond Budgeting Roundtable
This is the book that was missing to social enterprise practitioners of any function – HR, IT, Operations or... Quality. Bringing together input from multiple disciplines, Jon describes a meaningful and practical way for organizations to thrive in the 21st Century. While “social capital” remains too often a blind spot for leadership and corporate processes, Jon offers hope that this can change. Illustrated by numerous case studies and supported by an impressive list of references, Jon’s book provides compelling insights about “how to make an organization greater than the sum of its parts”. A must read.
Céline Schillinger, Head, Quality Innovation & Engagement, Sanofi Pasteur
This book is a must read for anyone responsible for driving the performance and culture of an organization, whether CEO or HR practitioner. Grounded in theory and practice, it takes the reader on a journey of how to evolve their people strategy, with rich, illustrative case studies from a variety of industry sectors. These lead to a diagnostic tool and robust organizational prioritization model, or OPM. A book that unlocks tremendous value for academic, HR practitioner and business leader like.
James Cullens, Executive Director, Group HR & Marcomms, W S Atkins plc.
Paul Sparrow, Emeritus Professor of International HRM, Lancaster University Management School
Jon provides an important contribution to ensuring that in future we develop more successful organisations, which make the most of people, not only individually but in how they work effectively together through teams, networks and communities. This is something at the Work Foundation we think is important to securing “good work”. Over recent decades we have seen huge changes driven by powerful forces such as technology and globalisation, which are radically disrupting traditional business models and ways of working. Dramatic headlines, capturing widespread media coverage, paint bleak and gloomy futures for many, with ideas of machines replacing people and the spread of precarious work, as employment opportunities polarise and businesses cut costs. But, in this technologically-driven, information age, it is now more important than ever that we do not lose sight of the importance of the human contribution at work. Good Work calls for more people centred practices, where work is meaningful, employees are happier, more motivated and can make significant contributions to business success. In this regard Jon’s thoughts on how to unlock the real value of human beings in organisations individually and collectively is a really welcome addition to current debates. Jon provides some powerful insights, interpreting the latest evidence through his extensive practical, business experience. A must read for helping to ensure the future of Good Work for many and not just a privileged few.
Lesley Giles, Director, The Work Foundation
Jon Ingham draws on his rich experience as both HR Director and consultant, providing key insights from academia matched with great case stories. He extracts the essentials of what must be addressed for an organisation to perform to its full potential. Highly readable and highly recommendable.
Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development, Statoil and Chairman, Beyond Budgeting Roundtable
This is the book that was missing to social enterprise practitioners of any function – HR, IT, Operations or... Quality. Bringing together input from multiple disciplines, Jon describes a meaningful and practical way for organizations to thrive in the 21st Century. While “social capital” remains too often a blind spot for leadership and corporate processes, Jon offers hope that this can change. Illustrated by numerous case studies and supported by an impressive list of references, Jon’s book provides compelling insights about “how to make an organization greater than the sum of its parts”. A must read.
Céline Schillinger, Head, Quality Innovation & Engagement, Sanofi Pasteur
This book is a must read for anyone responsible for driving the performance and culture of an organization, whether CEO or HR practitioner. Grounded in theory and practice, it takes the reader on a journey of how to evolve their people strategy, with rich, illustrative case studies from a variety of industry sectors. These lead to a diagnostic tool and robust organizational prioritization model, or OPM. A book that unlocks tremendous value for academic, HR practitioner and business leader like.
James Cullens, Executive Director, Group HR & Marcomms, W S Atkins plc.