Cultural Clarity Understanding and Developing Organizational Culture |
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Author:
| Fox, Andrew K. |
Foreword by:
| McDonald, David |
ISBN: | 978-1-7340733-1-7 |
Publication Date: | May 2022 |
Publisher: | Oxford Publishers
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Executive leaders are making organizational culture a top priority. Getting it right increases productivity, enhances problem solving through collaboration, hires new members that culturally fit, offers ways for current members to culturally adapt, and creates an environment of success where the work of each member makes a difference.Organizational culture is not what you do but how you do it. This book helps executive leaders understand and develop their own unique organizational...
More DescriptionExecutive leaders are making organizational culture a top priority. Getting it right increases productivity, enhances problem solving through collaboration, hires new members that culturally fit, offers ways for current members to culturally adapt, and creates an environment of success where the work of each member makes a difference.Organizational culture is not what you do but how you do it. This book helps executive leaders understand and develop their own unique organizational culture by interacting with the written material. It can be used in different organizations: corporations/businesses, education/schools, and churches/non-profits. Though each organization in different, the dimensions of each one are identical: vision, mission, and core values. Discovering the unique characteristics of your organization within these dimensions brings clarity to your leadership, members, customers, clients, suppliers, volunteers, and much more.Understanding and developing organizational culture will save you 150% of the cost in replacing good people who leave you for another organization. Getting it right keeps the "river in the riverbed" in executive and team meetings. It guides assessments, evaluations, job performances, the use of technology, promotions, advancement and much more.Cultural organization is the adhesive that holds everything together.In four distinct sections, this book will engage you with questions and offer solutions to your organization. Part one gives you a brief history of how executive leadership has prioritized cultural organization from the 1800's to today. Part two demonstrates why organizational culture as your competitive advantage by examining your hiring, onboarding, and adapting practices. Part three journeys through the process of a job interview all the way to a job offer by measuring cultural indicators and the agility of your organization. Finally, part four acknowledges the type of executive leadership that fully embraces importance of organization culture: servant leadership.After reading this book, the organization called Cultural Clarity will help you understand and develop your organization within the workplace.