Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures

Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures
Author: Jamie Jacobs
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789667224

WINNER: Nonfiction Authors Association Book Awards Gold Award 2021 Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures is a practical guide for HR and OD professionals which explains how to proactively design, build and foster a culture that creates employee and business success. For a company to outperform the competition and achieve sustainable business growth, it needs a high performing, engaged and committed workforce with the skills the business needs both now and in the future. Attracting, motivating and retaining top talent can't be done simply by attaching individual benefits to specific job roles. To be effective, companies need to build an exceptional company culture where people want to work and that allows them to develop and perform to their full potential. Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures provides guidance on all elements of building a top performing culture including how to identify and define core company values and embed them throughout policies, processes and behaviours as well as how to create an organizational structure that leverages employees' strengths for optimum performance. It also covers how to assess what roles the business needs, how to recruit for future success and make the most of non-traditional hires as well as covering employee engagement, motivation, reward, diversity and Learning and Development (L&D). With practical examples, tips and advice throughout , this is crucial reading for anyone needing to build a culture that attracts the very best talent and achieve sustainable business growth.

Culture by Design

Culture by Design
Author:
Publisher: Infinity Publishing (PA)
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781495830501

Thrive

Thrive
Author: Andrew Freedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781544516080

Thrive provides leaders with a clear blueprint for building a high-performance culture. Drawing on extensive experience in change management, organizational development, and performance consulting, Andrew Freedman and Paul Elliott share their systematic approach, known as the Exemplary Performance System (EPS), in a way that enables leaders to take immediate action to shift workforce engagement and performance. Thrive teaches leaders how to create clarity and alignment around what high performance looks like and how to replicate it at scale, identify and eliminate barriers to performance excellence, effectively align individual and team priorities with those of the company, and build organizational systems and processes that accelerate business and financial results.

Exceptional Leadership by Design

Exceptional Leadership by Design
Author: Rob Elkington
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787439003

This collection of stories, examples and narratives about exceptional leadership by design provides tangible, examples of how the design process can be applied to leadership practice. It uses evidence-based organizational, behavioral, and leadership science to inform a framework that will equip leaders and organizations to be more effective.

Inspired Organizational Cultures

Inspired Organizational Cultures
Author: Kimberly Wiefling
Publisher: Thinkaha
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781616991340

Inspired Organizational Cultures shares how inspired, and inspiring, organizations flourish.

Nimble, Focused, Feisty

Nimble, Focused, Feisty
Author: Sara Roberts
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1942952139

Leaders have talked about the importance of corporate culture for decades, but the success of iconic companies like GE, Apple, and Google shows how culture is a strategic lever that can be utilized for driving growth, change, and innovation. In this new age of globalization, rapid technology shifts, and constant disruption, the 21st century marketplace is more volatile and uncertain than ever. To thrive, businesses need a new kind of emphasis around culture. Sara Roberts, former CEO and founder of Roberts Golden and a seasoned executive consultant to dozens of Fortune 500 companies and CEOs, sees how flourishing companies—from established market leaders to the surprising upstarts—share three distinct attributes: Nimble: They are much faster and more agile than ordinary organizations Focused: They use their sense of purpose as a lens to understand and meet the needs of customers and markets Feisty: They play big and act bold to capitalize on advantages and out-muscle the competition For successful companies in this new era, culture is not about playing defense but about going on offense. It's purposely designed, leveraged, and honed to deliver value and drive growth. In Nimble, Focused, Feisty, Roberts provides not only a look into what these organizations are doing differently but also a blueprint and framework so your company can create a cultural strategy to thrive in the new era.

Organizational Cultures

Organizational Cultures
Author: Diana C. Pheysey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415082921

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reculturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success

Reculturing: Design Your Company Culture to Connect with Strategy and Purpose for Lasting Success
Author: Melissa Daimler
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781264278602

Drive business sustainability, growth, and profits by taking a systematic approach to culture transformation It's no secret that culture is the key to attracting and engaging top talent and seizing the competitive edge. But the vast majority of culture efforts fail as quickly as they started. Why? Because leaders are missing the big picture. They're creating and communicating values but failing to ensure the values are tied to the purpose and the strategy of the company while also being integrated into processes, operations, and behaviors. In ReCulturing, Melissa Daimler solves this persistent problem by helping you develop a "systems" perspective of culture. One of today's most renowned thought leaders and practitioners on the issue, Daimler provides the playbook for building a business in which employees are clear on the why, what, and how they are working, such that it naturally leads to high performance and a desire to stay with their company for the long haul. ReCulturing explains: - The everyday practice of culture--how it's actually done through behaviors, processes and practices - How to leverage core frameworks that can be tailored to design and build any company culture, whether that's a start up or a large company working - The integration of purpose (why you work), strategy (what you do) with culture (how you work) The book also features illuminating real-life stories recounting what has and hasn't worked at some of today's largest and most influential companies. Whether you're launching a startup, running a global firm, or overseeing the shift to a hybrid work setting, ReCulturing provides everything you need to the kind of culture that drives long-term business success.

Organizational Traps

Organizational Traps
Author: Chris Argyris
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191615129

Anyone who has spent time in an organization knows that dysfunctional behavior abounds. Conflict is frequently avoided or pushed underground rather than dealt with openly. At the same time, the same arguments often burst out again and again, almost verbatim. Turf battles continue for extended periods without resolution. People nod their heads in agreement in meetings, and then rush out of the room to voice complaints to sympathetic ears in private. Worst of all, when people are asked if things will ever change, they throw up their hands in despair. They feel like victims trapped in an asylum. And people often are trapped. But they are not trapped by some oppressive regime or organizational structure that has been imposed on them. They are not victims. In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. Researchers and practitioners have often reflected on these things, but there is a puzzle. On the one hand, there is substantial agreement that these traps are counterproductive to effective performance. On the other hand, there is almost no focus on how organizational traps can be prevented or reduced. This book argues that whatever theory is used to describe and understand such organizational traps should be used to design and implement interventions that reduce and prevent them. Argyris is one of the world's leading management scholars whose work has consistently shed light on orgainzational problems. This book is essential reading for MBAs, managers, and consultants.

The Thriving Organization

The Thriving Organization
Author: Michael Pacanowsky
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781977202192

How does this sound? Your organization is humming! People come to work every day energized, excited, and engaged--ready to provide the "discretionary enthusiasm" so crucial to the organization's success. Performance is outstanding on all the critical metrics. Your customers are delighted. Does that sound too good to be true? Impossible to achieve? It doesn't have to be. Thriving Organizational Cultures highlights the underlying dynamics that drive high-performance organizational cultures. The fact is that you can't build a Thriving Organization in one, two, or three easy steps. But these pages are filled with detailed, real-world examples of what it means and what it takes to become a Thriving Organization--as Gary Hamel says, an organization "fit for the future and fit for human beings." You'll find a clear, practical blueprint to help you and your organization get there. So, no, you can't build a Thriving Organization overnight, in just one or two easy steps. But you can continuously improve your organizational culture. You can help your people realize their full potential. You can put your organization--whether it's a team, a business unit, or an entire company--on the path to sustained cultural excellence. And you can start that exciting journey right now--right here.