How Healthy Is Your Organization?
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How Healthy Is Your Organization?

The Leader's Guide to Curing Corporate Diseases and Promoting Joyful Cultures

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

How Healthy Is Your Organization?

The Leader's Guide to Curing Corporate Diseases and Promoting Joyful Cultures

About this book

In today's stressful work environment, organizations can be crippled not only by product failures or dramatic market shifts but by internal demons. Typical symptoms of corporate dis-ease include distrust, lack of communication, territoriality, and other negative qualities that fester below the surface and ultimately sap the organization's vitality. But according to these experts in organizational dynamics, it doesn't have to be that way. In truly strong organizations, employees experience joy in performing their tasks and give their utmost to add value and help achieve organizational goals. This provocative book, featuring over fifty case studies, shows how organizations can uncover problems in the corporate culture, root them out, and prosper. As the authors argue, sustainable profitability, over the long term, is a function of achieving a balance among financial objectives, customer demands, and employee needs. Through numerous examples, case studies, and diagnostic exercises, the authors show managers and employees, as well as students and researchers of organizational behavior, how to identify the sources of organizational disease and focus on promoting a positive, inclusive culture. The end result? Profitability, better employee retention, and a company that's fun to work for.

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Yes, you can access How Healthy Is Your Organization? by Imre Lövey,Eszter Erdélyi,Manohar Nadkarni in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Negocios y empresa & Gestión. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780275997762
eBook ISBN
9780275997779
Edition
1
Topic
Negocios y empresa
Subtopic
Gestión

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Joy and Health in Organizations
  7. Part II: The Fundamentals of Organizational Health
  8. Part III: Leading Healthy and Joyful Organizations
  9. Further Reading
  10. Index
  11. Table 1.1: Joyful vs. Dysfunctional Teams
  12. Table 3.1: Customer Exploitation
  13. Table 3.2: Servility
  14. Table 3.3: Alienation
  15. Table 3.4: Pampering
  16. Table 3.5: Negligence of Financial Matters
  17. Table 3.6: Money Mania
  18. Table 4.1: Organizational Paranoia
  19. Table 5.1: Workaholism
  20. Table 6.1: Insensitivity to Problems
  21. Table 6.2: Bureaucracy
  22. Table 6.3: Decision Paralysis
  23. Table 6.4: Suboptimizing
  24. Table 6.5: Self-Centered Leadership
  25. Table 6.6: Shortsightedness
  26. Table 6.7: Longsightedness
  27. Table 6.8: Risk Avoidance
  28. Table 7.1: Insufficient Value for Customers
  29. Table 8.1: Stagnation
  30. Table 8.2: Tunnel Vision
  31. Table 9.1: Aggressive Approach to the Environment
  32. Table 9.2: Insufficient Interaction with the Environment
  33. Table 10.1: Vision-Related Beliefs
  34. Table 10.2: Customer-Related Beliefs
  35. Table 10.3: Employee-Related Beliefs
  36. Table 10.4: Organization-Related Beliefs
  37. Table 10.5: Teamwork-Related Beliefs
  38. Table 10.6: Personal Growth-Related Beliefs
  39. Table 10.7: Private Life-Related Beliefs
  40. Table 10.8: Work-Related Beliefs
  41. Table 11.1: Joylessness
  42. Figures 2.1: The Model of a Healthy Organization
  43. Figures 3.1: Fundamental Needs
  44. Figures 3.2: Satisfied Customers
  45. Figures 3.3: Belongingness
  46. Figures 3.4: Minimal Entropy
  47. Figures 4.1: The Feeling of Belongingness
  48. Figures 5.1: Influencing Factors of Workaholism
  49. Figures 6.1: Empowerment: The Development of Effective Self-Directed Teams