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A CLIMATE OF SUCCESS
A Climate of Success
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By
Roderic Gray, Dr Roderic Gray is Principal of Kumpania Consulting. He is an experienced management coach, lecturer, researcher and consultant in change management, project management, team working and organizational development.

Description
Could your organization be a better place to work? What effect would that have on the quality and quantity of what gets done? This book examines the concept of organizational climate ('what it feels like to work here') in a readable and accessible way without sacrificing academic rigour. Using case studies to illustrate the causes and consequences of various climate factors, it makes practical suggestions for how improvements can be made - to everyone's benefit. Building on current research, this book shows how perceptions of climate arise, the effects they can have on performance, and how managers can influence these perceptions and apply their understanding to improve their own and their people's effectiveness.

Audience
Managers at all levels HR managers Business students (CMS, DMS, MBA, HR qualifications) and academics Management consultants and advisers

Contents
Outline of context and content; How the book will help in practical management (ch. 1); Background to the concept of organizational climate; Research to date; Relevant psychosocial constructs (ch. 2); Performance management issues as related to organizational climate; Other performance influences which must be separated to avoid confusion (ch. 3); Assessing organizational climate; The eight factors identified as contributing to climate perception; Inter-relatedness of factors (ch. 4); Case studies illustrating each of the eight contributing factors and its influence on performance: free expression of ideas, free expression of concerns, freedom to question, participation in defining goals and objectives, intrinsic satisfactions, innovation, environmental threat, purposive threat; each with a summary of lessons learned (chs. 5-12); Conclusion and summary (ch. 13).

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: APR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8368-5
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8368-6
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

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