Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures: How to Develop Companies Where Employees Thrive

Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures is a practical guide for HR and OD professionals which explains how to proactively design, build and foster a culture that creates employee and business success.

For a company to outperform the competition and achieve sustainable business growth, it needs a high performing, engaged and committed workforce with the skills the business needs both now and in the future. Attracting, motivating and retaining top talent can't be done simply by attaching individual benefits to specific job roles. To be effective, companies need to build an exceptional company culture where people want to work and that allows them to develop and perform to their full potential.

Designing Exceptional Organizational Cultures provides guidance on all elements of building a top performing culture including how to identify and define core company values and embed them throughout policies, processes and behaviours as well as how to create an organizational structure that leverages employees' strengths for optimum performance. It also covers how to assess what roles the business needs, how to recruit for future success and make the most of non-traditional hires as well as covering employee engagement, motivation, reward, diversity and Learning and Development (L&D). With practical examples, tips and advice throughou , this is crucial reading for anyone needing to build a culture that attracts the very best talent and achieve sustainable business growth.

About the Author

HR executive and expert Jamie Latiano Jacobs has spent over twenty years specializing in people and culture for organizations that have ranged from independent startup to global Fortune 50, funneling her expertise into companies undergoing rapid organizational growth, transformation, and building best-in-class teams that have created opportunities for winning in the marketplace.

With a B.A. in History and Political Science from University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. from Chapman University, Jamie Jacobs built a stellar career as an HR executive across a diverse array of industries-from technology and financial services to luxury hospitality. A recognized leader in the HR community, Jamie Jacobs has served as president of the National Human Resources Association, as well as on multiple boards of directors, and is a professor at University of Southern California's Bovard College Masters in Human Resources Management Program.