Description
Book SynopsisCreate 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
Trade Review"Balancing Individual and Organizational Values bringsvalues and their importance into the foreground, where they belong!It provides the practitioner with understanding and tools to reallywork with values-individually, collectively, and organizationally."
--David Jamieson, president, Jamieson Consulting Group; coauthor,Managing Workforce 2000
"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 on the Inside
Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits xi
Foreword to the Series xiii
Introduction to the Series xv
Statement of the Board xix
Foreword xxv
Dedication xxviii
Preface xxix
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Part 1: Understanding Values
1. Why Values are Important 3
2. The Motivational System 23
3. Values and Personality 43
4. Values and Organizations 69
Part 2: Assessing and Changing Values
5. Assessing Values 97
6. Toward Growth Values 137
7. Enhancing the Motivational System 175
8. Motivational System Mapping 193
Appendix: Organization and Human Systems Development Credo 215
Bibliography 219
About the Authors 227
About the Editors 229
Index 233
