Book Titles

The Enthusiastic Employee
How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What they Want

By David Sirota, Douglas Klein

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0133249026
Categories: Employees, Employers, Enthusiasm

238 Quotes Found

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

We need to get to the root of the matter – the source of employee indifference – and we need to address it.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

It is a common, but harmful, misconception that people and their organizations are in a natural state of conflict.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…one can say that, often, it is management that kills or dampens enthusiasm!

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

The gains from a transactional relationship are usually temporary, in part because such organizations receive from most of their workers little beyond what is required and monitored.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

A transactional relationship is often… a prescription for short-term success (in terms of cost reduction) and long-term mediocrity.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…partnership is a business relationship plus – the plus being the human dimension…

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

The effectiveness of critical business policies depends on the extent to which our assumptions about human motivation are correct.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

People tend to join companies enthusiastically, hopeful that they have found an organization where their work-related goals, interests, and aspirations will be met.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Based [on research]… there are three primary sets of goals of people at work: equity, achievement, and camaraderie.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…people want to be proud of the work they do. They want to be paid a fair wage for their efforts and have job stability. Their co-workers – their cooperation and congeniality – are important to them.

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