A climate of success: creating the right organizational climate for high performance

Inside the book

Climate is usually used when referring to "weather"; what this book says about organizational climate concerns a corporate-unique climate. As weather influences our daily life, organizational climate plays a significant role in the workplace. Organizational climate is an aggregate perception of all workers at the front-line, corollary related to a firm's performance. That's to say, good soil and weather are required to produce good fruit. As a matter of fact, we are more accustomed to culture rather than to climate. Although many firms try to innovate or improve their organizational culture, a culture is too intangible to come up with actual results. To make the matter worse, few know where to start from and there are scant examples of successes. Meanwhile, climate involves measurements & evaluation so that it takes not much time to harvest a change within a short period of time that makes a difference to each one's work environment. With today's high competition, a firm's competitiveness relies on software factors like the leader and the climate the leader creates. Therefore, a leader of an organization must be involved personally in making a good climate, which leads directly to good performance. This book guides the reader to not only theory & concepts but also real-world examples & anecdotes of high-performance inducing climate and to a wide-ranging view in relation to how to apply them to the organization.

Issues inside the book

What it feels like to work here?

Roderic Grey is not strict to academic norms so that he introduces organizational climate in very plain words. He explains how a climate is being perceived, how it moves organizational results, and how a leader influence it. Climate is in good use for case studies that find various causes & effects; a concrete measure is possible in improving climate.

The key message from this book is the importance of behaviors and actions by leaders and managers. This leads to a supportive climate that respects and reinforces employee commitment that thereby contributes to the longer-term sustainability of the organization 

Professor Peter Woolliams, Emeritus Professor, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Too often the terms 'culture' and 'climate' are used interchangeably. This book makes the distinctions clear and demonstrates through academic study and practical case studies that improving the climate of an organization will increase its success

Helen Sweeney, Group HR Director, NG Bailey

You work at a good workplace? 

The answers to this inquiry will produce a key to what to look for in terms of how an individual & organization are related to performance.

Biblio information

Book title: A climate of success: creating the right organization climate for high performance

Area: BA, Organizational climate, corporate culture, leadership

Published by: PMI Group Press

Author: Roderic Grey 

Translated by: Shin Hyun-Kwan 

ISBN: 979-11-952735-1-5-03320

Price: 19,000 won

Issued on: July 30, 2015

Author Roderic Grey

Roderic Grey is specialized in HR & BA as a Ph.D. in organizational behavior; he is multi-talented as a consultant, writer, and management coach. Specifically, he works energetically in many areas such as organizational management, organizational climate, individual & organization's collaborative performance. He wrote about various topics in relation to "how an organizational climate correlates with job performance" and "how to evaluate them”; his [How People Work] is being read globally. He worked as a global consultant, lectured in graduate school for HR & advanced courses of BA. Now Grey coaches doctoral researchers in UK & abroad; he is a founding member of UK HR Institute and an accredited member of Project Management.

Translator Hyun-Kwan Shin 

He is a professional in the area of business administration & HR with a doctoral degree in BA. With more than 25 years' experience in domestic & abroad consulting & successful examples, Ph.D. Shin concentrates on how to structure corporate strategies & how to create a corporate climate for sustainable growth. He started as a JEMCO's consultant in Japan and later became a Korea Management Association consultant, CEO of EMC Partners, Vice-President of HayGroup, Business Planning VP of BarTech and EWoo Technology. He now represents PMI Group, in the capacity of a consultant in various fields such as management strategy, HR unit, business marketing, and management accounting. He wrote [How to make a High-Performance Corporate Climate], [Must-Knows for Leaders in HR Practices], etc.