Perks, benefits and financial reward are not enough to develop a motivated, productive and high-performing workforce. For employees to work to their full potential, purpose and meaning at work is key.
Purpose and Work is a practical guide for senior business leaders and people professionals which shows them how to create purpose-driven teams and design organizations where people want to work. It covers why meaning is so important for employees in today's working environment, how work has moved from a commodity to an experience and why a clear sense of purpose is essential for individual and organizational success. This book offers practical guidance on how to build a company culture that prioritizes purpose and explains how to embed this into behaviors and actions across the business. There is also guidance on how to drive staff attraction and retention, boost workforce productivity and performance as well as improving employee engagement and wellbeing with a clear sense of purpose across the business.
Packed with interviews and real-world examples from companies including HV Capital, Unmind and Wonderbly, this book explains the employee, workforce and business benefits of prioritizing purpose at work and shows how to achieve them in any organization.
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Purpose and Work
How Purpose Supports Motivation, Productivity and Performance at Work
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- Available on iOS & Android
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Table of contents
- List of figures
- About the author
- Foreword by Dart Lindsley
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- PART ONE Seeking purpose
- 1 Our pursuit of meaning
- 2 When work became a grind
- 3 Emptiness and achievement
- PART TWO Career crossroads
- 4 Allowing for the contemplation of change
- 5 The risks of leaping
- PART THREE Walking away
- 6 Identity and life outside work
- 7 Quiet quitting
- PART FOUR Building with purpose
- 8 Transforming corporate cultures
- 9 Crafting the employee experience
- 10 Aligning values and actions
- PART FIVE Working authentically
- 11 The journey is the reward 205
- Conclusion: Imagining Sisyphus fulfilled and closing thoughts
- Index
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