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by Ken Hultman (Author), Bill Gellermann (With), Richard Beckhard (Foreword by)
Create a healthy and successful organization environment!
It s time to re-examine your organization s fundamental values andcreate the conditions necessary to make your workplaces healthierenvironments for everyone. This essential resource is filled withcritical information needed to understand the interrelationshipbetween individual and organizational values. Balancing Individual and Organizational Values:* Explores the major value challenges in today s businessworld
* Offers powerful tools for assessing values
* Outlines a systematic approach for revitalizing organizationsthrough growth values "An important addition to any OD practitioner's library, KenHultman's book reviews and analyzes both the historical andcontemporary relevance of values to the mission of OD. It is packedwith valuable frameworks, models, tools, worksheets, and advice toguide OD consultants addressing value issues in the changeprocess."
--Bev Scott, principal, Bev Scott Consulting; author, Consulting onthe Inside
Front Jacket
Healthy organizations are more successful than unhealthy ones. The time has come for organization development practitioners and other leaders to re-examine their organization's fundamental values and create the conditions necessary to make their workplaces healthier environments for everyone. Balancing Individual and Organizational Values-a book in the Practicing Organization Development Series-explores the major value challenges in today's business world, offers powerful tools for assessing values, and outlines a systematic approach for revitalizing organizations through growth values.
This essential resource is filled with the critical information needed to understand the interrelationship between individual and organizational values and
- Presents the Motivational System Model that can explain personal, interpersonal, team, and organizational behavior
- Outlines four criteria-balance, viability, alignment, and authenticity-for assessing values
- Describes fifteen values that have particular relevance in the new economy
- Discusses how to develop and implement values-driven interventions aimed at individuals, teams, and organizations
- Outlines a new assessment approach-Motivational System Mapping-that can be used effectively with individuals, teams, and organizations
Author Biography
Ken Hultman--an internationally known authority on change management-has more than twenty-five years of experience as a consultant, trainer, and clinical counselor, with an emphasis on helping individuals, teams, and organizations remove barriers to achieving their full potential. He is the author of The Path of Least Resistance: Preparing Employees for Change and Making Change Irresistible: Overcoming Resistance to Change in Your Organization.
Editorial Board includes David Bradford, W. Warner Burke, Edith W. Seashore, Robert Tannenbaum, Christopher A. Worley, and Shaolin Zhang
