Climate of Success

Dr Roderic Gray is a consultant, writer and management coach. His career involved a variety of practical, hands-on management roles before becoming an internal consultant in a major blue-chip company and running his own consulting practice, Kumpania Consulting. He has lectured on a range of postgraduate management and HR professional courses and published a number of articles on organizational climate, project management and product development topics. His book 'How People Work' was published by Pearson (FT Prentice Hall) in 2004.

"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 organisation will increase its success." Helen Sweeney, Head of HR, Co-operative Financial Services "Offering research for the theorist with case studies for the activist/pragmatist to understand the practicalities, this book could attract an extensive audience, especially first line managers who now want to understand best practices to use as part of their own development as they don't want to mimic bad practices used on them from old-style thinking. HR professionals would welcome this book." Gillian Ince, Training & Resourcing Manager, Claire's Accessories UK

• Chapter 1 Metaphor and Reality; Chapter 2 Climate, Culture and Perception; Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 4 The Good Life – and Good Performance; Chapter 5 Assessing Organizational Climate; Chapter 6 On the Freedom to Express Ideas; Chapter 7 On the Freedom to Express Concerns; Chapter 8 On the Freedom to Question; Chapter 9 On Participation in Defining Goals And Objectives; Chapter 10 On Intrinsic Satisfactions from the Work Itself; Chapter 11 On Innovation – The Freedom to Try New Concepts and Approaches; Chapter 12 On Purposive Threat; Chapter 13 On Environmental Threat; Chapter 14 The Way Ahead;