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:

…attitudes toward pay and pay increases have major consequences for pay-for-performance systems.

123

The Enthusiastic Employee:

When trust is present, the kind of support an organization can receive from its workers is absolutely amazing.

124

The Enthusiastic Employee:

Organizations need to strive to compensate their workers well – even above the competition to the extent affordable.

133

The Enthusiastic Employee:

…the pay-for-performance systems in place are not particularly credible for quite large numbers of workers.

140

The Enthusiastic Employee:

The profound power of pay should be used to encourage, not discourage, teamwork…

146

The Enthusiastic Employee:

…the impact of money on an employee’s sense of achievement is lost when participation is not accompanied by financial return.

150

The Enthusiastic Employee:

The link is clear – do more to get more – and the system encourages, rather than discourages, improvement.

155

The Enthusiastic Employee:

Gainsharing ties the bonuses of a group of employees to their ability to improve performance – the performance that they largely control – over the past year.

155

The Enthusiastic Employee:

…workers are pleased relative to what they see or have heard happening elsewhere and relative to their fears as to what might have happened to them.

171

The Enthusiastic Employee:

…security is, for most people, the most basic of needs. Its importance may not be evident when workers feel little insecurity… But when security is threatened… job preservation is of enormous consequence…

173