Routledge 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. Review "I am immensely grateful to Richard Barrett and to his organization for my continued success, for changing my own philosophy of business and the way I approach change. In his new book, The Values-Driven Organization, Richard expands on his earlier work, and takes the opportunity to articulate why values are so important in shaping society and why they matter to humanity as a whole." ―John McFarlane, Chairman, Barclays Bank "Richard Barrett deserves his reputation as the leading expert on how values drive business success. His understanding of the interaction of the stages of psychological development with levels of human motivation is masterly. The insights contained in this book on how an organization can measure its culture and bring about change are intensely practical. The book provides a unique blend of theoretical foundation and useful advice for a leader of any type of organization." ―Christopher Hodges, MA PhD FSALS, Professor of Justice Systems and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford "Richard’s grasp of conscious capitalism is extraordinary. In the second edition of his best-selling book The Values-Driven Organization he provides a process, methodology and tools for measuring the cultural health of organizations. I highly recommend this book if you believe caring for your employees comes before caring for your customers." ―John Mackey, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market "I have been applying the principles and practices Richard Barrett outlines in this book since 2010 with great results. The insights contained in this latest volume can help anyone become a more conscious leader of corporate culture." ―Arvind Shankar, Global Managing Director, Accenture Enterprise Enablement "In a world dominated by the power of money, the impact business has on our society is now greater than ever. By bringing empirical evidence and science to the otherwise elusive and qualitative measurements of what makes organizations thrive, Barrett provides the tools we need to measure and nurture the soul of an organization. The Values-Driven Organization maps the science of corporate soul retrieval." ―Lawrence Ford, Author and CEO of Conscious Capital Wealth Management "In The Values-Driven Organization, Richard Barrett, the world leading expert on values, offers an indispensable overview of how values function as the core operating principle for the human being and subsequently play a much more crucial role for individuals, organizations and societies than is generally understood." ―Björn Larsson, CEO, ForeSight Group "Richard Barrett never disappoints and this book is no exception. Every word is weighted with wisdom!" ―Ann Dinan, PhD, Deeper Leadership Institute "Richard Barrett's work has been a guiding light for much of the cultural change we have undertaken at CRU in the last few years. The intellectual rigour behind his work, demonstrated in the latest edition of Barrett's book, has been a key factor in our continued success." ―Nick Morgan, CEO, CRU Group "A superb read! If you are a CEO, Chief HR Officer, or Board member looking to trans