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Reviews:
"This book quickly focuses in on the good stuff. The thought-provoking questions posed throughout and the key messages encourage reflection and help the reader focus in on the essentials. It is a book of choice for those who want plenty of exercises and tools that any business reader could pick up and practically apply to measure the health of their organization."
Amanda Underwood, Head of Human Resources, Pizza Express
"She cuts through jargon and nonsense like no one else, and helps frame the issues and choices faced in the real world. Her books are essential reading for anyone who wants an expert but comprehensive guide to a subject."
Matt Nixon, Global Head of Talent, Barclays
"…draws complex concepts into sharp focus and gives the reader a great basis for the diagnosis and cure of sick organizations ... beautifully written and distils concepts into understandable ideas without losing any rigour."
Dr Patrick Tissington, Reader in Management, Aston Business School
Description:
A healthy organization is just that in all its aspects: people, process, structures, systems, behaviours and governance. It is one where appropriate adaptive, maintenance and development activities are integral to maintaining performance and alignment in the operating environment. Organizational Health takes an informed look at the critical elements of any organization that must be maintained to ensure consistent growth, resilience and performance. Taking a highly practical approach throughout it covers key areas including:
• understanding and assessing organizational health
• the impact of structures such as hierarchies, alliances and joint ventures
• systems and processes both formal and informal
• control methods such as corporate governance, ethics and compliance
• maintenance and development including 0D and change management
• sustainability including carbon footprint and business ecosystems
• indicators of health and dysfunction
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1: Organizational health • Objectives • The human being analogy • Analogy limitations • Describing organizational health • The importance of organizational health • Preventive health care • Different systems, different health approaches • Indicators of health and ill health • Assessing organizational health • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 2: Organizational structures • Objectives • The business model • The organization chart • The organizational network • The friendship and social network • Insight into all four structures • Symptoms of unhealthy structural functioning • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 3: Systems and processes • Objectives • Four types of system • Systems interactions • Processes • The human factor • System and process health • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 4: Control • Objectives • Formal control • Informal control • Leadership control • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 5: Developing well-being • Objectives • Developing individual well-being • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 6: Healthy technologies • Objectives • Increasing growth of crowdsourcing • Differing intergenerational use of technology • Changing organizational ‘ownership’ of technology • Designing different organizations in response to the possibilities new technologies offer • Responding to the changing relationship between employees and employer in response to the possibilities new technologies offer • Ensuring adequate and appropriate privacy, security and trust in the use of new technologies • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 7: Healthy space • Objectives • Functional and fit for purpose • Feeling good • Expressive • Exercise • Key messages • References
Chapter 8: Management fads • Objectives • Fads: definitions and adoption • Fad buyers and sellers • Fad watch • Buyer beware • Exercise • Key messages • References
Glossary
Resources
Appendix
Index ISBN - 9780749466022
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Pages : 256
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