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:

…management that encourages teamwork achieves higher performance because… teamwork elevates the ‘spirit’ – the motivation, the enthusiasm – of employees.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Little of lasting significance changes in an organization without the concurrence and involvement of the leadership.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…numerous studies have been performed that link the satisfaction of purchasing behavior of customers to the attitudes and performance of employees.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

Customer satisfaction with a company has quite consistently been found to relate to a company’s profitability.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

The treatment employees give customers… largely depends on how an organization treats and manages its employees.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…as any true leader knows, having the correct strategy is just part of the story. To be fully realized… the workforce at all levels needs to be mobilized in its execution.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…if an organization seeks to have enthusiastic workers, it must understand that those employees cannot be treated as fungible objects.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

The fact is that workers often experience layoffs not as prudent business stewardship but as base inequitable treatment.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…the need for people to feel that they are being treated fairly is basic, and nothing is more basic for most employees that job security.

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The Enthusiastic Employee:

…a decision to lay off people sends a message of the fundamental importance to the workforce about the way the company views its people: not as assets but merely costs (necessary evils).

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