The Values-Driven Organization: Cultural Health and Employee Well-Being as a Pathway to Sustainable Performance

Values-driven organizations are the most successful organizations on the planet. This book explains that understanding employees’ needs—what people value—is the key to creating a high performing organization. When you support employees in satisfying their needs, they respond with high levels of engagement and willingly commit their energies to the organization, bringing passion and creativity to their work.This new edition of The Values-Driven Organization provides an updated set of tools to assess corporate culture, new case studies on cultural transformation and additional materials on sustainability, measuring cultural health at work and the specific needs of the millennial generation. The Values-Driven Organization is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners of organizational change, leadership, HRM and business ethics.

About the Author

Richard Barrett is an author, speaker and internationally recognised thought leader on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre, a Fellow of the World Business Academy and former Values Coordinator at the World Bank.