Most people work for an organization to earn a living-questions of joy and happiness rarely figures in their thinking at the workplace. It is perhaps even more infrequent for a leader to consider whether members of the organization he or she is managing, find joy in their work. This delightful book maintains, however, that a truly strong organization is one whose employees experience joy in performing their tasks which inspire them to give their utmost to add value and to realize organizational goals. the authors also maintain that in order to become joyful, an organization must first become healthy. They describe a healthy organization as one which deals with issues before they turn into persistent problems and which has the ability to develop and grow over time. Based on over sixty years of combined experience in organizational development gained in five continents, the authors have developed a holistic framework of organizational health and diseases to better understand a flourishing organization in today’s world. They present an entirely new analysis of organizations in order to bring them to the stage of being joyful and thus effective in realizing the organizational vision as well for individual to live a fuller, more satisfying life. The authors challenge the commonly held view that management is all about identifying priorities and producing results in a short time frame. Instead, they maintain that the most frequently ignored criteria for organizational health is achieving and maintaining a balance between fundamental objectives such as fulfilling the financial requirements, the needs of the organization’s customers and of its members. The book also identifies why organizations may not be healthy, maps 21 common organizational diseases (such as workaholism, money-mania, organizational paranoia, self-centered leadership, and decision paralyses), identifies their causes and origins, and suggests ways to overcome these problems in order to achieve revolutionary results. Peppered with real-life examples and written in a lucid style, the book provides both a conceptual foundation and a practical guide for both organizations and the individuals who work in them. It will be of enormous interest to business leaders and strategic thinkers, as well as to professionals in management, organizational development and human resource development, in addition to anybody who works in an organization and wants to understand it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eszter Erdelyi
Eszter Erdelyi has been a management consultant for over 12 years. She began her career in Hungary consulting to the government, international dvelopment agencies and new enterprises. She has consulted to multinational companies and non-profit organizations for London, Paris and New York, and is currently based in San Francisco. Ms Erdelyi received her MBA degree from the Harvard School of Business Administration in 1992, her master's degree in International Economics from the Budapest University of Economics in 1985 and completed the European Union comprehensive program at the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politique in Paris in 1992. She has worked with A.T. Kearney, Credit Lyonnais and Coopers and Lybrand Consulting.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Imre Lovey
Imre Lovey is Managing Partner and founder of CONCORDIA Inc., Budapest, one of the first organizational and experimental management training firms to be set up in Hungary. He has over 25 years of experience in consulting to multinationals, joint ventures, governments, international agencies, socialist enterprises, undergoing transformation to a market economy and publicly traded companies. He worked on different assignments in countries such as the United States,Peru, Thailand, India, the United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa, Imre Lovey was instrumental in introducting organizational development in Central and Eastern Europe and poineered using and raising the awareness of organizational development methodologies. he founded the Hungarian Organization Development Society in 1986 and was its first president and has also founded commercially successful consulting enterprises. Dr. Lovey was a regular visiting professor of management at the University of California, Los angeles, between 1990 and 1997, and is a member of the National Training Laboratories of Applied Behaviour (USA) and of the Executive Committee of the International Organization Development Association.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manohar S. Nadkarni
Manohar S. Nadkarni is Founder Chairman, Behavioral Science Center (India) Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai. He has over 35 years of experience in organizational development practice in India and has been a consultant to multinationals, government agencies and local communities. He has worked in rural development, small industry development and in large industrial and non-industrial organizations. Manohar Nadkarni has undertaken several international assignments and United Nations' missions in developing entrepreneurship, management and organizational development and has trained a number of OD consultants in several countries such as Russia, Hungary, Papua New Guinea and Nigeria. Manohar Nadkarni is a former president of the Indian Society for Applied Behavioral Science. He spent four years at Harvard University as a senior member of Professor David McClelland's term, developing and running training programmes for Achievemen tMotivation Development. He has also worked as a consultant for several American Corporations.
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