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.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Understanding values
1. Values-driven. What does it mean?
2. The impact of values on performance
3. What employees want
4. Whole system change
Part II: Values alignment and mission alignment
5. The model
6. The Cultural Transformation Tools
7. Building sustainable performance
8. Measuring Cultural Health
9. Types of culture
10. Industry reports
Part III: Personal alignment
11. The seven levels of leadership
12. Reducing Personal Entropy
13. Measuring Personal Entropy
14. Coaching the leader
15. The leader as a coach/role model
Part IV: Structural realignment
16. Choosing espoused values
17. Organizational democracy
18. Embedding the culture
19. The twenty-first-century organization
Annex 1: Short description of SDGs
Annex 2: The energy available to an organization
Annex 3: The top 40 publicly traded best companies to work for in North America
Annex 4: Firms of Endearment
Annex 5: Good to Great Companies
Annex 6: The Trust Matrix Exercise
Annex 7: Theory U and Seven Levels of Consciousness
Annex 8: The Four Why’s Process
Annex 9: Guidelines for choosing values and developing mission and vision statements
Annex 10: A Brief Overview of the Origins of the Seven Levels of Consciousness model
Annex 11: Defining consciousness
Annex 12: List of the Cultural Transformation Tools® for mapping the values of organizations
Annex 13: Using the BNS to develop a balanced set of strategy indicators
Annex 14: CVA data plots and tables
Annex 15: Brief description of principal maladaptive schema
Annex 16: The personal mastery self-coaching process
Annex 17: Tools for mapping the vavlues of individuals and leaders
Annex 18: IVA, LVA, IDR and LDR data plots and tables
Annex 19: Values, beliefs and behaviours exercise
