Creating the right environment for improvement: How to close the gap between what you have and what you need
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 8 June 2010
Abstract
Purpose
Explains the importance of organizational environment and reveals how to align it with organizational success.
Design/methodology/approach
Defines organizational environment, explains how it can fail to match the environment the organization actually needs, provides examples of what happens when the two are not synchronized, and shows how to align them.
Findings
Highlights the importance of: linking actions and improvements to what really matters; making quality improvement everyone's responsibility; being responsive and flexible; communicating well, and adapting to changing circumstances.
Practical implications
Argues that creating the right organizational environment can be a long process.
Social implications
Reveals a way in which most organizations can be made to perform better.
Originality/value
Contains interesting examples of what happens when the organizational environment is not aligned with organizational success.
Keywords
Citation
Eaton, M. (2010), "Creating the right environment for improvement: How to close the gap between what you have and what you need", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 30-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670731011051531
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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