Catherine Berney

The Enlightened Organization

Executive Tools and Techniques from the World of Organizational Psychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This empowering book presents leaders, executives and HR professionals with the psychological models, tools and techniques they need to build a more effective, more enlightened organization. Taking a clear, practical and accessible approach it offers direction for developing fundamental areas of insight, skill and expertise and for seeing more clearly in the changing commercial landscape in which today's businesses operate. Threaded with recent international case studies that highlight the new skills and competencies required by business professionals, this essential book provides a framework for navigating the interconnected landscape in which we all increasingly work. The Enlightened Organization is a toolkit that any thinking person working in an organization can use to help them connect more meaningfully with their purpose and role. It will enable you to become the best you can be, and in the process create a more successful organization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9780749470272
• ISBN-10: 0749470275
• Artikelnr.: 39878067

Autorenporträt

Catherine Berney is Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University School of Management and professional lecturer, FRSA facilitator, mediator and consultant with a background in international finance, law, and organizational psychology. She has nearly 20 years' international experience facilitating organizational and executive learning and development across all business sectors.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART ONE The issues
01 Complexity and change: Letting go of the illusion of control
Complexity
Change
The challenge of letting go
02 A new reality for organizations: Managing risk and reputation
The system
The context
Building resilience
The enlightened organization
03 Leaders and managers taking up their role: New skills and competencies
required
Old competencies
New skills required
Roads to Resilience
Wake-up call
PART TWO The personal and the interpersonal
04 Ways in: Theories of the unconscious as a resource
Psychology and the mind
Neuroscience and the body
Interconnectedness and the heart
Integration
05 Ways into self: Me
Some tools and techniques
The Grounding Steps framework
You hold the keys
06 Ways into the other: Me and you
A short recap on theory
It is not personal
The Grounding Steps framework
Daily Temperature Reading
Open the door
07 Ways into groups: Me, you and others too
Belbin and the perfect team
Forming, norming, storming, and performing
The working group
The Grounding Steps framework
The power of the group
PART THREE System and context
08 The system: Working from the inside out
Working from the inside out
Systemic thinking
The Grounding Steps framework
The health of the system and an integral model
Incentives and rewards
Person in system and role
09 The context: Working from the outside in
Nadler and Tuschman
Interconnectedness
Purpose
Ways of seeing
A biological perspective
Person in system and context and role
PART FOUR Governance
10 Governance and the enlightened organization: Directing performance for
the longer term
The theory applied and a recap on the two-pronged approach
Blindness, wilful or otherwise, on the board
The enlightened organization
The privilege of the role
References
Index