Profitably Healthy Companies

Every company faces challenges, but some are able to achieve long-term vitality while others flame out. What distinguishes a healthy, high-performing organisation? Which ingredients, decisions, and values result in a business that is built for the long haul?

Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organisational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O'Malley detail proven methods for every organisation at each level. They demonstrate why a focus on employee and community well-being is more likely to ensure lasting profitability than a single-minded focus on the bottom line. Burke and O'Malley explain the keys to company resilience, examining safeguards against decline and disaster as well as tools for generative renewal and growth. They show how organisational culture encourages optimal performance, flexible and adaptive corporate strategy, and employee motivation and commitment. The book emphasises up-to-the-moment issues, such as how to centre diversity and inclusion and the promise and pitfalls of remote work.

Burke and O'Malley base their recommendations on research in organisational psychology as well as their own extensive consultative experience, providing a rich array of case studies and examples. Profitably Healthy Companies is a clear and authoritative guide for practitioners, leaders, and decision makers, synthesising an all-inclusive treatment of organisational life with a comprehensive checklist of what organisations must do in order to thrive.