ABSTRACT

Values-driven organizations are the most successful organizations on the planet. This book explains that understanding employees’ needs—what people value—is the key to creating a high performing organization. When you support employees in satisfying their needs, they respond with high levels of engagement and willingly commit their energies to the organization, bringing passion and creativity to their work.

This new edition of The Values-Driven Organization provides an updated set of tools to assess corporate culture, new case studies on cultural transformation and additional materials on sustainability, measuring cultural health at work and the specific needs of the millennial generation.

The Values-Driven Organization is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of organizational change, leadership, HRM and business ethics.

part I|60 pages

Understanding values

chapter 1|18 pages

Values-driven. What does it mean?

chapter 2|13 pages

The impact of values on performance

chapter 3|9 pages

What employees want

chapter 4|18 pages

Whole system change

part II|62 pages

Values alignment and mission alignment

chapter 5|12 pages

The model

chapter 6|9 pages

The Cultural Transformation Tools

chapter 7|17 pages

Building sustainable performance

chapter 8|8 pages

Measuring Cultural Health

chapter 9|5 pages

Types of culture

chapter 10|9 pages

Industry reports

part III|46 pages

Personal alignment

chapter 11|9 pages

The seven levels of leadership

chapter 12|9 pages

Reducing Personal Entropy

chapter 13|6 pages

Measuring Personal Entropy

chapter 14|13 pages

Coaching the leader

chapter 15|7 pages

The leader as a coach/role model

part IV|90 pages

Structural realignment

chapter 16|13 pages

Choosing espoused values

chapter 17|8 pages

Organizational democracy

chapter 18|7 pages

Embedding the culture

chapter 19|4 pages

The twenty-first century organization

chapter Annex 1|2 pages

Short description of SDGs

chapter Annex 2|2 pages

The energy available to an organization

chapter Annex 4|1 pages

Firms of Endearment

chapter Annex 5|1 pages

Good to Great companies

chapter Annex 6|3 pages

The Trust Matrix exercise

chapter Annex 7|4 pages

Theory U and Seven Levels of Consciousness

chapter Annex 8|6 pages

The Four Whys Process

chapter Annex 11|2 pages

Defining consciousness

chapter Annex 14|2 pages

CVA data plots and tables

chapter Annex 15|3 pages

Brief description of principal maladaptive schema

chapter Annex 16|9 pages

The personal mastery self-coaching process

chapter Annex 18|3 pages

IVA, LVA, IDR and LDR data plots and tables

chapter Annex 19|2 pages

Values, beliefs and behaviours exercise