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Enthusiastic Employee, The: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want, 2nd Edition
- By David Sirota, Douglas Klein
- Published Jul 30, 2013 by Pearson FT Press.
About
Features
The #1 guide to improving productivity by improving employee attitude - now extensively revised with new insights, cases, and research.
- Stop demotivating employees and start bringing out their best: specific, practical, evidence-based techniques for line managers and senior leaders
- The “dollars-and-cents” business case: you can have enthusiastic employees, and it does matter – enormously
- Now addresses long-term impacts of the Great Recession, and presents a new guide to building Partnership Cultures
- Important new research on pay-for-performance
- New full-length case study from one of the world’s best employers, The Mayo Clinic
- Reflects research with 4,000,000+ employees in 250+ companies
Description
- Copyright 2014
- Dimensions: 6" x 9"
- Pages: 512
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-405759-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-405759-0
This book is about employee enthusiasm: that special, invigorating, purposeful and emotional state that’s always present in the most successful organizations. Most people are enthusiastic when they’re hired: hopeful, ready to work hard, eager to contribute. What happens? Management, that’s what. The Enthusiastic Employee is an action-oriented book that helps companies obtain more from workers - the basic premise is that under the right kind of leadership, the more one side wins in a collaborative relationship, the more for the other side. The book is heavily evidence-based (using extensive employee survey data) and lays out two basic ideas: the “Three-Factor Theory” of human motivation at work and the “Partnership” company culture that is based on the Three-Factor Theory and that, by far, brings out the best in people as they respond with enthusiasm about what they do and the company they do it for. Drawing on research with 13,000,000+ employees in 840+ companies, The Enthusiastic Employee, Second Edition tells you what managers (from first-line supervisor to senior leadership) do wrong. Then it tells you something much more important: what to do instead. David Sirota and Douglas Klein detail exactly how to create an environment where enthusiasm flourishes and businesses excel. Extensively updated with new research, case studies, and techniques (they have added over 8.6 million employees and over 400 companies to their analyses ), it now contains a detailed study of Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most effective healthcare organizations and a true representation of the principle of partnership, as well as more in-depth descriptions of private sector exemplars of partnership, such as Costco. Other new chapters include: how the Great Recession really impacted workers’ morale (bottom-line, it didn’t) and how to build a true Partnership Culture that starts with senior leadership. They now debunk fashionable theories of worker “generations” (Baby Boomers, Gen X, Y, etc.) as mostly nonsense… clarify what they’ve learned about making business ethics and corporate social responsibility actionable… share what research on merit pay (pay for individual performance) tells us about its likely impact on school teachers and performance (not good)…discuss the utility of teleworking (and the dust-up at Yahoo)…offer compelling, data-informed insights about women and minorities in the workplace, and much more. You can have enthusiastic employees, and it does matter – more than it ever has. Whether you’re a business leader, HR/talent management professional, or strategist, that’s the workforce you need – and this is the book that will help you get it.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
About the Authors xiii
About the Second Edition xv
Our New Website xx
Introduction 1
Asking the Questions 4
Asking the Right Questions 4
Questions Result in Data 6
After the Honeymoon 11
A Quick Look at “Old-Fashioned” Theories 12
Solid Theory, Research, and Management Practice to Which We Are in Debt 15
How This Book Is Organized 15
Part I Worker Motivation, Morale, and Performance 17
Chapter 1 What Workers Want—The Big Picture 19
Blame It on the Young 20
The Lordstown Strike and Job Enrichment “Solution” 22
The Generation Gap Mythology Re-Emerges 24
Myths About the Work Itself 29
The Sirota Three-Factor Theory 32
The Specific Evidence for the Three-Factor Theory 45
How the Three Factors Work in Combination 52
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences 55
Individual Differences 62
Chapter 2 Employee Enthusiasm and Business Success 67
Making the Connection 67
Telling Us in Their Own Words 69
A Few Leading Organizations 74
“Enthusiasm” Versus “Engagement” 79
Enthusiasm and Performance: The Research Evidence 81
Building the People Performance Model 86
Part II Enthusiastic Workforces, Motivated by Fair Treatment 93
Chapter 3 Job Security 95
Specific Job Security Policies and Practices 107
Chapter 4 Compensation 117
Money as Seen by Workers 117
Money as Seen by Employers 118
Levels of Pay 122
Paying for Performance 133
Recommendations 143
A Note on Merit Pay for Teachers 157
Chapter 5 The Impact of the Great Recession: Flight to Preservation 161
The Survey Results 165
The Role of Management 176
Chapter 6 Respect 181
The Heart of Respect 184
Humiliating Treatment 186
Indifferent Treatment 188
The Specifics of Respectful Treatment 193
Physical Conditions of Work 195
Status Distinctions 196
Compensation Status Is a Fundamental Distinction 200
Job Autonomy 203
Constrained Communication 206
Part III Enthusiastic Workforces, Motivated by Achievement 213
Chapter 7 Organization Purpose and Principles 215
Elements of Pride in One’s Company 215
The Impact on Performance of “Doing Good” 219
Short- Versus Long-Term Profit Horizon 225
More About Purpose 231
More About Principles 232
Ethics in the Treatment of Employees 233
Getting Practical: Translating Statements of Purposes and Principles into Practice 238
Chapter 8 Job Enablement 255
Ah, Bureaucracy! The Evil That Just Won’t Go Away 262
A Management Style That Works 269
Layers of Management 274
The Benefits of Self-Managed Teams 278
Telecommuting: Yahoo Bans Work-From-Home 283
Chapter 9 Job Challenge 295
Is This an Aberration, Are Workers Delusional, or Are They Lying? 297
Given a Choice, Few People Volunteer to Fail 300
Push and Pull 302
Chapter 10 Feedback, Recognition, and Reward 313
Do Workers Get the Feedback They Need? 313
Guidance 315
A Short Course on Giving Cognitive Feedback 318
Evaluation, Recognition, and Reward 330
What Makes for Effective Recognition of Workers? 333
Advancement 340
The Other Side of the Equation: Dealing with Unsatisfactory Performance 343
Feedback Sets Priorities 347
Part IV Enthusiastic Workforces, Motivated by Camaraderie 349
Chapter 11 Teamwork 351
A Look Back 352
Are We Doing Better Now? 353
Socializing While Working 354
Uncooperative Co-Workers Have an Exponentially Negative Effect 356
Contentious Workgroups Are Drags on the Organization 357
Building Partnership 362
How Can the Misperceptions Be Uncovered, Confronted, and Corrected? 364
Lay the Foundation Prior to the Workshop 367
Establish Workshop Ground Rules 367
A Typical Workshop Agenda 369
Action Example: IT and Its Users 370
Part V Bringing It All Together: The Culture of Partnership 375
Chapter 12 The Culture of Partnership 377
Application to Other Constituencies 395
A Cultural Case Study of Mayo Clinic 396
Partnership in These Times 405
Chapter 13 Leadership and the Partnership Culture 411
The Critical Importance of Effective Leadership 412
Trust 414
Charisma 417
The Nine Key Leadership Attributes 421
Chapter 14 Translating Partnership Theory into Partnership Practice 431
It Starts at the Top 433
The Action Process 436
Endnotes 457
Index 479