Managing by Values : A Corporate Guide to Living, Being Alive, and Making a Living in the 21st Century - S. Dolan

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Managing by Values

A Corporate Guide to Living, Being Alive, and Making a Living in the 21st Century

By: S. Dolan, S. Garcia, B. Richley

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Hardcover | 28 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Preface Introduction PART I: MANAGEMENT BY VALUES: LOGIC AND CONTENT Managing by Values (MBV): Its Foundation and Evolution Values: But, what Actually are they? Renew or Die: The Importance of Culture Change The Logic of Two Different Cultures: Control vs. Development PART II: PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH MANAGEMENT BY VALUES (MBV) The Relationships between Organizational Development (OD) and MBV Creating a Culture Shift: Roles and Managing Resistance to Change in your Company A Step by Step Process for Putting MBV into Practice Putting MBV into Practice is not Easy: 24 Likely Problem Areas - and Suggested Answers Postscript: An MBV Voyage: Past, Present and Future Appendices

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'This book is one that needed to be written. It is an outstanding contribution to the literature and needs to be read by all levels of management.' - Cary L. Cooper, Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University, UK

'The authors do an outstanding job in describing their model and illustrating how managers can implement their model successfully, and thereby, assist their companies to compete in the highly competitive global marketplace.' Randall S. Schuler, International and Strategic Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA

'I am convinced that the ideas discussed in this book are not a utopia but rather a clear winning management philosophy.' - Carlos Losada, Professor and Director General of ESADE Business School

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Foreword	p. x
Foreword	p. xiv
The Authors	p. xviii
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Introduction	p. xxii
Management by Values: Logic and Content
Managing by Values: Its Foundation and Evolution	p. 3
The evolution of MBV: from MBI, through MBO, to MBV	p. 6
Triaxial model and key factors of MBV	p. 14
MBV as the means for integrating strategic management with 'people' policies and building commitment	p. 17
MBV and corporate ethics: two close, but disparate concepts	p. 22
Summary	p. 24
Values: But, What Actually Are They?	p. 27
The meaning of the word 'value'	p. 27
Moving from beliefs to behavior, via values	p. 36
Beliefs and outcomes: the emergence of stress	p. 39
Value formation in an organization	p. 43
The power of values towards generation of knowledge and success in organizations	p. 46
Summary	p. 49
Renew or Die: The Importance of Culture Change	p. 50
Understanding organizational culture and why it matters	p. 50
Why should an organization change?	p. 51
What should the change involve and how far should we go?	p. 60
The need for 'gearing' between strategy, structure, processes and people: the role of values	p. 61
More of the same or 'a change in the way of changing?'	p. 64
When is the right time to change?	p. 67
Summary	p. 68
The Logic of Two Different Cultures: Control versus Development	p. 69
The necessity to alternate and integrate control-oriented management with development-oriented management	p. 70
The meaning of values in control-oriented and learning and development-oriented organizations	p. 77
The rational-economic culture and why it fails	p. 80
The formal and bureaucratic structure: can it work forever?	p. 84
Revisiting the Hawthorne studies	p. 89
Revisiting the humanist beliefs	p. 90
The 'socio-technical' approach to management	p. 91
Are organizations evolving?	p. 93
Summary	p. 94
Practices Associated with Management by Values (MBV)
The Relationships Between Organization Development (OD) and MBV	p. 97
What is organization development?	p. 97
The innovative company: the learning organization	p. 106
The structures and processes to be re-designed for cultural evolution from control towards development	p. 109
Surviving and thriving in the 21st century	p. 113
Summary	p. 115
Creating a Culture Shift: Roles and Managing Resistance to Change in Your Company	p. 116
Roles and responsibilities in implementing culture change	p. 116
Roles to be assumed by the change leader(s)	p. 119
The 3 phases of change	p. 126
Moving from 'doing things' and 'getting things done' to 'enabling things to happen'	p. 130
Resistance to change	p. 133
The role of communication in managing resistance to change	p. 134
Managing the political dynamics of cultural change	p. 135
Managing the emotional dynamics of cultural change	p. 138
Culture shift and MBV	p. 146
Summary	p. 146
A Step-by-Step Process for Putting MBV into Practice	p. 148
Pre-change	p. 149
Distilling the essential values	p. 154
We are actually changing! it's time to put the project teams to work	p. 182
Designing human resource policies based on values	p. 187
Monitoring operational values via culture audits	p. 195
Summary	p. 197
Putting MBV into Practice is Net Easy: 24 Likely Problem Areas, and Suggested Answers	p. 199
Postscript: An MBV Voyage - Past, Present and Future	p. 207
The birth of MBV: a synergy based on the authors' experiences and beliefs	p. 207
The dynamics and evolution of MBV	p. 209
Culture, challenges and frontiers in MBV	p. 214
Living, being alive and making a living: 'pendulum' and 'kaleidoscopic' perspectives of MBV	p. 216
A final word to the reader	p. 218
Driving your high-performance MBV organization to success	p. 219
Appendices	p. 221
On-line instrument for auditing and measuring value gaps and benchmarking in your organization	p. 221
Instrument for measuring leadership readiness for championing culture change	p. 222
References	p. 228
Index	p. 234
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A Corporate Guide to Living, Being Alive, and Making a Living in the 21st Century

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