Culture — Organizational Environment

Managing Upside Down

Tom Chappell

This unconventional business tactic focuses on three principles:

• Manage for social aims and profit
• Redefine leadership roles around values
• Develop competitive advantage around values shared by customers, owners and employees.

A powerful account of how Tom’s of Maine achieved astounding success as a values driven organization.

The Corporate Culture Survival Guide

Edgar H. Schein

Corporate culture is a concern for organizations. This book explains what corporate culture is, how it operates, and what can be done to improve it. This author is a pioneer in the field of studying corporate culture. The book is framed around the most frequently asked questions about culture: What is corporate culture? How can I assess it? How can I change it?

Toxic Emotions at Work

Peter Frost

People’s behavior that doesn’t support the vision, mission and values of the organization become toxic. However, this truth is a reality of life and in business these people do exist. Knowing what to do with them and empowering your organization in spite of them is what this book will help you discover.

Learning Organizations

edited by Sarita Chawla and John Renesch

Tomorrow’s organizations will need to have a culture that supports continued learning. This book addresses three questions;

• What is a learning organization?
• What are the advantages of creating one?
• Why should a company embark on becoming a learning organization?

The book contains essays by 39 of the most respected authors and scholars on this topic.

Built to Last

Jim Collins

To build an organization that is sound as well as relevant, it will need a clarity of its mission, a set of core values and a strategy that is in place to achieve its purpose. This best selling book will create a path for how to go about each of these three steps.

Managing by Values

Ken Blanchard

Creating a new level of organizational success will happen only when all people within the organization know, understand and apply the core values to life and action within the organization. It is that simple, but also that difficult to get, alignment and focus around a set of values everyone adheres to but absolutely necessary for success!

Gung Ho!

Ken Blanchard

To increase productivity and morale in the workplace is a challenge for every manager/leader. This book has a unique and powerful script to get people to see the importance of good work within their organization.

Hidden Value

Charles A. O‘Reilly and Jeffrey Pfeffer

HR departments pay attention: To improve the value of each employee‘s place within their organization is your task and vocation. To do this is critical for the organization‘s success. This takes place with a long term plan of how to help each employee improve their understanding of how they can truly add more value to their organization. To move to a strategic plan of how this happens is quite a challenge to HR Directors. Why? It is easy to be encumbered with the business of hiring, benefits, etc. rather than focus on a long term development plan for each employee.

Corporate Culture and Performance

John Kotter and James Heskett

The corporate culture truly impacts and influences economic performance, for better or worse! The efforts of this research indicate without a doubt that there is a relationship between culture and performance. The authors demonstrate how shared values, unwritten rules influence success. They discuss how easily an unhealthy culture can emerge within and organization and how much of an impact this has over time and how it affects that all important bottom line.

Fish

Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen

An energetic account of how a ‘fish’ company in Seattle created energy within their workday through what has now become known as The Fish Philosophy. If you haven’t read it, do so and you too will be inspired to boost your own morale and improve the results you are now experiencing.

Organizational Culture and Leadership

Edgar Schein

Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine the definition of culture and demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in creating that culture and its ability to achieve its organizational goals. After reading the book, the reader will have a new understanding of what makes an organization effective. Schein has the ability to take abstract data and form information that becomes helpful tools for managers and leaders.

ZAPP! The Lightning of Empowerment

William C. Byham

Revitalization comes from the ground up. Empowering others to achieve their own greatness is the focus of this book. This book shows you how to encourage responsibility, acknowledge others and help them think creatively about their jobs.

The Fred Factor

Mark Sanborn

How do you turn your life and work from ordinary to exceptional? The author outlines four principles to make this happen:

1. Understand that everyone makes a difference
2. Success is built on relationships
3. Continue your effort to create values for others
4. Reinvent yourself on a regular basis