Balancing Individual & Organizational Values: Walking The Tightrope To Success

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
A- Presents the Motivational System Model that can explain personal, interpersonal, team, and organizational behavior
A- Outlines four criteria-balance, viability, alignment, and authenticity-for assessing values
A- Describes fifteen values that have particular relevance in the new economy
A- Discusses how to develop and implement values-driven interventions aimed at individuals, teams, and organizations
A- Outlines a new assessment approach-Motivational System Mapping-that can be used effectively with individuals, teams, and organizations

Create a healthy and successful organization environment
It s time to re-examine your organization s fundamental values and create the conditions necessary to make your workplaces healthier environments for everyone. This essential resource is filled with critical information needed to understand the interrelationship between individual and organizational values.
Balancing Individual and Organizational Values:
* Explores the major value challenges in today s business world
* Offers powerful tools for assessing values
* Outlines a systematic approach for revitalizing organizations through growth values
"An important addition to any OD practitioner's library, Ken Hultman's book reviews and analyzes both the historical and contemporary relevance of values to the mission of OD. It is packed with valuable frameworks, models, tools, worksheets, and advice to guide OD consultants addressing value issues in the change process."
--Bev Scott, principal, Bev Scott Consulting; author, Consulting on the Inside