How Healthy Is Your Organization?

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

Imre Lövey, Eszter Erdélyi, Manohar Nadkarni

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780275997762
• eBook ISBN:
  9780275997779
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Business allgemein

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Series Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Joy and Health in Organizations
• Part II: The Fundamentals of Organizational Health
• Part III: Leading Healthy and Joyful Organizations
• Further Reading
• Index
• Table 1.1: Joyful vs. Dysfunctional Teams
• Table 3.1: Customer Exploitation
• Table 3.2: Servility
• Table 3.3: Alienation
• Table 3.4: Pampering
• Table 3.5: Negligence of Financial Matters
• Table 3.6: Money Mania
• Table 4.1: Organizational Paranoia
• Table 5.1: Workaholism
• Table 6.1: Insensitivity to Problems
• Table 6.2: Bureaucracy
• Table 6.3: Decision Paralysis
• Table 6.4: Suboptimizing
• Table 6.5: Self-Centered Leadership
• Table 6.6: Shortsightedness
• Table 6.7: Longsightedness
• Table 6.8: Risk Avoidance
• Table 7.1: Insufficient Value for Customers
• Table 8.1: Stagnation
• Table 8.2: Tunnel Vision
• Table 9.1: Aggressive Approach to the Environment
• Table 9.2: Insufficient Interaction with the Environment
• Table 10.1: Vision-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.2: Customer-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.3: Employee-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.4: Organization-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.5: Teamwork-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.6: Personal Growth-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.7: Private Life-Related Beliefs
• Table 10.8: Work-Related Beliefs
• Table 11.1: Joylessness
• Figures 2.1: The Model of a Healthy Organization
• Figures 3.1: Fundamental Needs
• Figures 3.2: Satisfied Customers
• Figures 3.3: Belongingness
• Figures 3.4: Minimal Entropy
• Figures 4.1: The Feeling of Belongingness
• Figures 5.1: Influencing Factors of Workaholism
• Figures 6.1: Empowerment: The Development of Effective Self-Directed Teams