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James S. (Jim) Pepitone

Chairman and Chief Scientist,
PepitoneWorldwide.

James S. Pepitone is a 20-year veteran management consultant often praised as "the architect of high-performance work." In addition to client engagements, Jim is chair and CEO of PepitoneWorldwide, and a pioneer in the field of human performance improvement. In recent years, he has developed breakthrough strategies for reducing the time and cost of corporate training programs by one-half while increasing the results, and has counseled numerous companies on the launch or re-launch of corporate universities. He is the author of Future Training: A Roadmap for Restructuring the Training Function (AddVantage Learning Press, 1996) and Human Performance Consulting, Transforming human potential into productive business performance (Gulf Professional Publishing Company, 2000)

Jim Pepitone is a leader within the scientific community, and maintains an in-depth knowledge of all fields of science contributing insight into human work performance and productivity. Many people applaud Jim’s support for the emerging applied science of Organization Productivity and its principal methodology, humaneering.

During Jim Pepitone’s consulting career, he gained firsthand experience with the popular alternative designs for consulting, including the “traditional/functional” design that is driven by normative (cookie-cutter) programs, and the newer “practice” design that is focused on specific industries, functions and locations.

He found that the functional design results in limitations to quality and conflicts of interest that are inherent in this design. Alternatively, the practice design stifles innovation and literally prevents clients from receiving the most effective and efficient solution.

His Credits include:

Human Performance Consulting, Transforming human potential into productive business performance; Future Training: A Roadmap for Restructuring the Training Function; Motivating Employees; How to Make a Smart Decision

Human Performance Consulting, Transforming human potential into productive business performance
by James S. Pepitone

	Hardcover: 432 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.26 x 9.28 x 6.33
	Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing Company; ISBN: 0877193525; (October 4, 2000)

In brief

cover image New rules require a new game plan. More than 80% of today's workforce comprises knowledge-and service-based workers, rendering obsolete the conventional understanding of organizational performance. New work roles require new managerial skills and methods. This innovative book shows how 'new human performance specialists' can mold and construct work situations that enhance performance, productivity, and profits.

The methods go beyond individual improvement and show how to create and sustain work situations that foster high levels of performance.

'Human Performance Consulting' presents a comprehensive framework for designing and implementing highly effective, results-orientated programs that improve employee performance. It gives managers and human-performance professionals proven methods for boosting any organization's workforce productivity and operational performance - and without huge capital expenditures, high-profile programs, and major upheavals.

James Pepitone describes the role of the internal performance consultant and explains how these individuals can add financial value to any organization by guiding human performance improvement. Case studies and examples give you a solid foundation for identifying and diagnosing performance problems.

Step-by-step instructions supply guidelines for working with existing management to make skillful changes that will improve performance and add measurable value.

Contents

New opportunities within organizations - The industrial roots of performance improvement; Developments in organization science; Knowledge workers as the means of production; Managing to increase productivity; Creating financial value; Improving human performance - New perspective on human performance; Natural order in enterprise systems; Need for a new approach; Don't just engineer, humaneer; Strategies to assess performance challenges; Strategies to improve performance; The consultant as instrument - Instruments of performance improvement; Continuous process for improving performance; Competent consultants.

Readership: HR professionals/managers

Future Training: A Roadmap for Restructuring the Training Function
by James S. Pepitone

	Paperback: 250 pages
	Publisher: AddVantage Learning Press; ISBN: 0963582216; (1995)

[ popular methods of ] "training, evaluation, reward, and other popular forms of management control are all based on the behavioral theories of Pavlov and Skinner, which imagine people as simplistic stimulus-response machines."

"Newer perspectives on human performance (e.g., humaneering) recognize the limitations of this thinking when it comes to improving the performance and productivity of knowledge and service workers. Jim Pepitone’s book, Future Training: A Roadmap for Restructuring the Training Function, is credited with launching this new perspective."

Back Cover

"Much of what is now done in the name of training is a virtual waste of resources. We need to rethink the purpose, radically redesign the process and redeploy the resources of today's training department. Training must be restructured to take a more credible professional role in organizations." The statements are bold. But as any senior executive facing surmounting competitive pressure knows, it's the sobering truth. Now Jim Pepitone offers good news: Amidst the necessity for new and more potent approach to workplace training lies extraordinary potential for organizations. If you're ready to unlock the potential, then in this groundbreaking book you've found the guide you need.

Future Training—A Roadmap for Restructuring the Training Function

Foreword

Introduction Corporate Training— From Resource to Source of Competitive Advantage

Part I Training Loses Its Way

	Chapter 1 - Teaching Work
	Chapter 2 - Workplace Changes
	Chapter 3 - Function Follows Form
	Chapter 4 - Caught without Value

Part II Paths for Change

	Chapter 5 - Free Cash Flow
	Chapter 6 - Commitment to Change

Part III Performance and Productivity

	Chapter 7 - Vital Linkage
	Chapter 8 - Humaneering for Advantage
	Chapter 9 - Innovating for Productivity
	Chapter 10 - Working for Performance
	Chapter 11 - Studying for Competence

Part IV Training Gets to Work

	Chapter 12 - Appreciative Inquiry
	Chapter 13 - Performance Development
	Chapter 14 - Training— Better, Faster, Cheaper
	Chapter 15 - Internal Consulting

Afterword Paradigm Pioneering

References

List of Figures

Motivating Employees
by Anne Bruce, James S. Pepitone

	Paperback: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.97 x 5.96
	Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade; ISBN: 0070718687; (October 1, 1998)

Book Description

In a fast-paced, engaging style, Motivating Employees reveals how Southwest, Disney, and other legendary companies have turned themselves into "motivating organizations, workplaces that inspire employees to do excellent work because they want to! Entertaining case histories and examples show how you can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of themselves into everything they do. Tips, tools, and techniques in Motivating Employees will show you how to reawaken the pioneer spirit in your organization, and teach your employees to tap their own motivational energy for extraordinary creativity, desire, and work output.

Table of Contents

Motivation Is an Inside Job.

Working with Human Nature.
Encouraging Entrepreneurial Thinking.
Linking Motivation to Performance.
Helping Employees Accept Responsibility for Motivation.
A Matter of Hope and Trust.
Fun and Motivation.
Attacking the De-Motivators.
Clear the Path to Employee Performance.
Inspiring Motivated Teamwork.
Unleashing the Potential of Synergy.
Getting It All Together.

How to Make a Smart Decision (Book + Audio Cassette)
by James S. Pepitone, Edwin N. Barker

	Paperback: 115 pages
	Publisher: AddVantage Learning Press; ISBN: 0963582208; (December 1, 1992)

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