Dr Baker emphasises the values of highly productive companies and provides, in this latest publication, a practical application of the model that Managers can use from day one in the workplace to achieve improved productivity.

As a student of his work, I can recommend the principles outlined in The 8 Values of Productive Companies and the understanding his work provides of the employer-employee relationship in contemporary management structures today.

This is compulsory reading if you want to add value to your management activities and build successful productive organisations in both the private and public sector.

Alastair Dawson, BA, MBA, FAIM, MAICD
Chief Executive Officer
Rockhampton Regional Council

Since purchasing our business 5 years ago, and using Dr. Tim Baker as our external organisation development consultant, we have seen a trebling of our turnover, a 5% increase in profit and practically no staff turnover. Many of the practices that Tim put in place within our business are written about in the book.
Tim’s management training has been a major contributor to our success. I recommend this book to all business Managers.

Terry Cubit
Managing Director
Queensland Thermo King

Every company, team, and individuals, has to rethink how we are engaging our employees and ourselves at workplace, to stay competitive and productive. In The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies, Tim delivers a practical model and change process on aligning the changing needs and interests of individual and organisation. Tim has worked with several Multi-national Companies in Singapore and all of them have found the model extremely useful and insightful in preparing them to further enhance their psychological contract with their workforce.

Dr. Tan Bee Wan, PhD
Executive Chairman
Integrative Learning Corporation Pte. Ltd.

To create value organisations need value based management. This book based on Dr Baker’s prior research on eight values of employee-employer relationship should be of great practical significance to modern managers.

Professor Milind Sathye
Deputy Head of the School of Business and Government
University of Canberra

Tim Baker writes frankly on the most important challenge facing businesses today: how to work together collaboratively, honestly and respectfully to gain the greatest value from our most important resource – our people. From TQM to Self-Directed Work Teams the failure of management techniques to deliver on their promises can be explained and predicted by this work. If you think you are doing it right, think again and read this book. And then consider; can we solve the environmental challenges of our world if we do not resolve the human relationship challenges of our workplaces?

Dr. Roxanne Zolin
Associate Professor
Queensland University of Technology

The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies is an inspiring book with great practical value. Tim provides much more than smart ideas, he draws on his real world consulting experience and his academic knowledge to make a convincing case for a values approach to management which can enhance the productivity and sustainability of organisations.

Professor Hitendra Pillay
Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia

Through a refreshingly selective mix of reference material and his own experiences Dr Tim Baker has produced a comprehensive guide to managing our most important business resource “Our People”

The book has helped me in creating a work place environment where the staff are genuinely valued, appreciate each other and are proud of the business and their own achievements.

Mark Bunt
General Manager
Epicentre Trading
Brisbane, Australia

Tim’s book is a “must-have” in any manager’s library. With scholarly thoroughness and contemporary case studies, you will learn of current trends in the workplace of the new millenium.”

Sergio Carlo Maresca FAIM
International best-selling author of BREAKAWAY!
and
FOCUS! or FOLD!

Tim has managed to extract a concise understanding from the latest research on the new work area and influences. The chapter on “Them and Us” provides a insightful background and by itself provides excellent guidance for practitioners. An excellent read for organisation specialists.

Hermias C. Hendrikse
Director of Organisation Effectiveness
Etisalat
United Arab Emirates

This book provides a new millennium understanding of the workplace environment and how to implement this paradigm shift in employee-employer relations. With this knowledge the reader will be equipped to rationalize behavioural trends and move to the forefront of organisational practice to create a Company with exceptional human capital and productive value.

Steve Settle
Company Director and Senior Business Manager
Brisbane, Australia

Dr Baker’s book presents 21 century leadership in a form that all managers should read. In today’s world of cross functional project teams and assignments, employers and employees need to operate with a strong values based relationship contract, guiding continuous learning and value creation. Such a partnership is key to meeting the goals of employees and organisational flexibility and knowledge management.

Bob O’Connor
Director Corporate Education
Queensland University of Technology

This user-friendly, well-laid out book is a must read for anyone, such as academics, students, professionals, managers, etc, who are interested in obtaining a better understanding of the radical changes in workplace relationships between the employer and employee. Using an 8 values-based framework, Tim provides a road map to guide the reader through the process (including pitfalls) in handling the transition from the traditional relationship to the dynamics of the contemporary workplace. At the end of each chapter, using reflective questions, case studies, summary of key points, etc, Tim helps to re-enforce the concepts explored in the book and provides an excellent reality check.

Bill Synnot
Co-author of “The Toolbox for Change: A Practical Approach”

Excellent … A much needed resource for today’s Airline Industry Management and Employees!

Captain Saravanan
Airline Pilot
Singapore Airlines
Singapore

This book is certain to make a significant contribution to improving staff retention, recruitment and productivity of companies in a climate of accelerated change and uncertainty. Read and enjoy this very interesting book.

Brent D. Peterson, PhD
Author of “FAKE WORK: Why People Are Working Harder Than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem”
United States of America

In The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies, Tim Baker has provided an excellent model—useful for any organization wishing to improve their productivity and effectiveness—to accomplish significant improvement that will transfer directly to the bottom line. That cannot be said of many of the books in this field of endeavor.

Dr. Baker provides the guidance, plus sufficient background to understand why the guidance makes sense and will work, so that leaders can immediately put his ideas to work. The results will not be instantaneous, but signs of those results will appear in very short order. The overall effort to create a highly productive company will take many years to completely accomplish, but right now changes will produce right now results. He points out many of the hurdles getting in the way of companies becoming highly productive, plus provides clear, simple means for leaping those hurdles.

In short, this is a book for organizational leaders to begin actuating positive results in the their organizations while they continue to learn more and more how to continue to achieve those positive, bottom line results.

Joel S. Finlay, Ph.D., RODC
Editor, Organization Development Journal
President, KSYC Production Industries
United States of America

With its practical approach and its focus on creating highly productive companies, Tim Baker’s book is a welcome addition to the management literature. It is a valuable resource for all of those who wish to deepen their knowledge and understanding of how people and organizations behave, and it provides the tools which will enable them to develop their skills in fostering enhanced individual and organizational performance. Written in an easily accessible style, it offers a route map for organizational transformation.

Professor Marie McHugh
Vice Chair British Academy of Management
Department of Management
University of Ulster
United Kingdom

Dr Tim Baker’s book, apart from being useful, sensible and practical has a thought provoking, contemporary relevance.

Bob Atkinson
Commissioner
Queensland Police Service

Congratulations Dr Baker! - “8 Values” has assisted me greatly in the management of the team and the values applied have increased productivity significantly and fostered positive change in our work environment

Tam Avery
Centre Manager
Retail First