(Mullin Advertising), James X.
Mullen (1995).
The Simple Art of Greatness: Building, Managing, and Motivating
a Kick-Ass Workforce. (New York, NY: Viking, 216 p.).
Founder, Mullen Advertising. Employee motivation; Personnel
management; Entrepreneurship.
(United Way of Indianapolis), Nancy S. Ahlrichs (2007).
Igniting Gen B and Gen V: The New Rules of Engagement for
Boomers, Veterans, and Other Long-Termers on the Job.
(Mountain View, CA: Davies-Black Pub., 144 p.). Vice President,
Workforce Development and Diversity, United Way of Indianapolis.
Long-term employees--United States; Employee retention--United
States; Employee motivation--United States; Organizational
learning--United States; Organizational effectiveness--United
States. Five-step program to engagement;
how to release full engagement, capture knowledge, train skills,
create new culture that leverages talents, experiences of Boomer
and Veteran employees; how to: assess demographics, redefine
retirement and job, provide flexibility, mandate performance,
make engagement part of culture.
(Xerox), Frank Pacetta with
Roger Gittines (1994).
Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up: A Maverick's Guide to Motivating
Yourself and Your Team. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster,
285 p.). Sales Manager (Xerox). Xerox Corporation--Case studies;
Success in business--Ohio--Cleveland--Case studies; Employee
motivation--Ohio--Cleveland--Case studies; Teams in the
workplace--Ohio--Cleveland--Case studies.
--- (2000).
Stop Whining, and Start Winning: Recharging People, Rigniting
Passion, and Pumping Up Profits. (New York, NY:
HarperBusiness, 294 p.). Success in business; Employee
motivation; Teams in the workplace.
Morris Altman (2001).
Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance: Microfoundations
of Success and Failure. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Employee motivation; Job satisfaction; Performance; Economics.
John Baldoni (2005).
Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders. (New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill, 246 p.). Leadership Communications Consultant.
Employee motivation; Leadership.
R. Brayton Bowen (2000).
Recognizing and Rewarding Employees. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 241 p.). Incentives in industry; Employee
motivation.
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001).
Now, Discover Your Strengths. (New York, NY: Free Press,
260 p.). Based on the Gallup study of over two million people.
Employee motivation; Management.
Ram Charan (2001).
What the CEO Wants You to Know: The Little Book of Big Ideas.
(New York, NY: Crown, 141 p.). Executive ability; Middle
managers; Success in business; Corporations--Growth; Industrial
management.
Eds. Cary Cherniss, Daniel Goleman; foreword
by Warren Bennis (2001).
The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How To Select For,
Measure, and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals,
Groups, and Organizations. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass,
352 p.). Emotional intelligence; Emotional intelligence tests;
Work--Psychological aspects; Success in business.
Aubrey C. Daniels (2000).
Bringing Out the Best in People: How To Apply the Astonishing
Power of Positive Reinforcement. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 245 p.). Employee motivation; Reinforcement
(Psychology); Affirmations; Performance.
--- (2001).
Other People's Habits: How To Use Positive Reinforcement To
Bring Out the Best in People Around You. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 195 p.). Behavior modification; Reinforcement
(Psychology).
Terrence E. Deal and William A. Jenkins
(1994).
Managing the Hidden Organization: Strategies for Empowering Your
Behind-the-Scenes Employee. (New York, NY: Warner Books,
322 p.). Organizational behavior; Employee motivation;
Psychology, Industrial.
Roger Dow & Susan Cook (1996).
Turned On: Eight Vital Insights To Energize Your People,
Customers, and Profits. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness,
302 p.). Success in business; Customer services; Employee
motivation.
Alex Frankel (2007).
Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventure of a Front-Line Employee.
(New York: HarperCollins, 256 p.). Employee motivation; Employee
loyalty; Organizational commitment; Interpersonal relations;
Employee motivation--Case studies; Employee loyalty--Case
studies. 2-year undercover
reporting project to find out how some of America's well–known
companies win hearts, minds of their retail and service
employees.
Charles Garfield (1986).
Peak Performers: The New Heroes of American Business.
(New York, NY: Morrow, 333 p.). Success in business; Employee
motivation.
Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton (2007).
The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition To
Engage Their People, Retain Talent, and Accelerate Performance.
(New York, NY: Free Press, 176 p.). Incentive awards;
Performance awards; Employee motivation. Central characteristic of most
successful managers: they provide employees with frequent
and effective recognition.
Frederick G. Harmon (1996).
Playing for Keeps: How the World's Most Aggressive and Admired
Companies Use Core Values to Manage, Energize, and Organize
Their People and Promote, Advance, and Achieve Their Corporate
Missions. (New York, NY: Wiley, 288 p.). Management;
Employee motivation; Values; Work ethic; Value added.
Frederick Herzberg (1966).
Work and the Nature of Man. (Cleveland, OH: World Pub.
Co., 203 p.). Work--Psychological aspects; Job satisfaction.
Motivation, workplace research, "hygiene" in worker
satisfaction.
--- (1976).
The Managerial Choice: To Be Efficient and To Be Human.
(Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 360 p.). Incentives in industry;
Motivation (Psychology); Psychology, Industrial; Job enrichment.
--- (2008).
One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Boston,
MA: Harvard Business Press, 65 p.). Distinguished Professor of
Management (University of Utah), Head of the Department of
Psychology (Case Western Reserve University). Employee
motivation; Achievement motivation; Supervision of employees.
How to shift from relying on extrinsic incentives to activating
real drivers of high performance: interesting, challenging work,
opportunity to continually achieve, grow into greater
responsibility. The results? An ultramotivated workforce.
Jon R. Katzenbach (2003).
Why Pride Matters More than Money : The Power of the World's
Greatest Motivational Force. (New York, NY: Crown, p.).
Employee motivation; Performance awards; Pride and vanity;
Psychology, Industrial.
Edited with an introduction by Steven Kerr
(1997).
Ultimate Rewards: What Really Motivates People to Achieve.
(Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 238 p.). Employee
motivation; Awards; Incentive awards.
Steve Kerr; with Glenn Rifkin (2008).
Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business School Press, 136 p.). Former Chief Learning
Officer of Goldman Sachs and General Electric. Incentive awards;
Employee motivation. Steps to create effective reward system: 1)
clarify what you mean by "performance" (in ways that help
employees understand how they can support what you're trying to
accomplish); 2) Devise effective performance-measurement system
that distinguishes between metrics used for control, those used
for employees' development; 3) Design reward system that
motivates people to do what you want them to do while also
meeting their needs.
Eric Klinger (1977).
Meaning & Void: Inner Experience and the Incentives in People's
Lives. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press,
412 p.). Meaning (Psychology); Incentive (Psychology);
Alienation (Social psychology).
Douglas L. Kruse (1993).
Profit Sharing: Does It Make a Difference?: The Productivity and
Stability Effects of Employee Profit-Sharing Plans.
(Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,
278 p.). Profit-sharing -- United States; Profit-sharing; Labor
productivity -- United States; Labor productivity; Job
satisfaction -- United States; Job satisfaction.
James E. Loehr (1997).
Stress for Success: The Proven Program for Transforming Stress
into Positive Energy at Work. (New York, NY: Times
Business, 260 p.). Job stress; Stress management; Employee
motivation; Success in business.
James R. Lucas (1999).
The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee
Commitment. (New York, NY: AMACOM, 236 p.).
Organizational effectiveness; Employee motivation; Knowledge
workers; Commitment (Psychology); Organizational learning;
Corporate culture.
Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef, and Bruce J.
Avolio (2006).
Psychological Capital: Developing the Human Competitive Edge.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 256 p.). Distinguished
Chaired Professor of Management (University of Nebraska);
Assistant Professor, Department of Management (Bellevue
University) ; Donald and Shirley Clifton Chair in Leadership,
Department of Business Administration (University of Nebraska).
Employee competitive behavior; Employee motivation;
Employees--Psychology; Human capital--Psychological aspects;
Management--Psychological aspects. Positive constructs which best
meet psychological capital criteria: efficacy (confidence),
hope, optimism, resiliency.
Michael Maccoby (1989).
Why Work: Motivating and Leading the New Generation.
(New York, NY: Simon &Schuster, 270 p.). Leadership; Employee
motivation; Organizational effectiveness.
Jean-François Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux
(2002).
The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great
People To Fail. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School
Press, 280 p.). Supervision of employees; Problem employees.
Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter (2000).
Preventing Burnout and Building Engagement: A Complete Program
for Organizational Renewal. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Employee morale; Psychology, Industrial; Burn out
(Psychology)--Prevention; Organizational effectiveness.
David C. McClelland (1976).
The Achieving Society: With a New Introduction. (New
York, NY: Irvington Publishers : distributed by Halsted Press,
512 p. [orig. pub. 1961]). Research Professor of Psychology
(BU). Economic development; Achievement motivation; Economic
history; Entrepreneurship.
--- (1985). Human motivation.
(Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 663 p.). Research Professor of
Psychology (BU). Motivation (Psychology).
David C. McClelland, David H Burnham
(2008).
Power Is the Great Motivator. (Boston, MA:
Harvard Business Press, 65 p.). Professor of Psychology
(Harvard University); President and Chief Executive
Officer of McBer & Company. Management -- Psychological
aspects; Control (Psychology); Employee motivation.
Nature and value of power in
organizations; how drive for influence is essential to
good management; counterintuitive insights about what
using power really means.
Richard T. Mowday, Lyman W. Porter, Richard M.
Steers (1982). Employee-Organization Linkages: The Psychology
of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover. (New York, NY:
Academic Press, 253 p.). Psychology, Industrial; Labor turnover;
Absenteeism (Labor); Employee morale.
Ross R. Reck (2001).
The X-Factor: Getting Extraordinary Results from Ordinary People.
(New York, NY: Wiley, 208 p.).. Employee motivation.
David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, Michael
Irwin Meltzer (2005).
The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving
Workers What They Want. (Indianapolis, IN: Wharton
School Pub., 363 p.). Employee morale; Employee motivation; Job
satisfaction; Success in business.
compiled by Richard M. Steers, Lyman W.
Porter, Gregory A. Bigley (1996).
Motivation and Leadership at Work. (New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 766 p. [rev. 6th ed.]). Employee motivation;
Leadership; Psychology, Industrial.
Paula S. Topolosky (2000).
Linking Employee Satisfaction to Business Results. (New
York, NY: Garland Pub., 103 p.). Job satisfaction; Job
satisfaction--United States--Case studies; Employee
motivation--United States--Case studies. Series: Garland studies
on industrial productivity.
Matt Weinstein (1996).
Managing To Have Fun: How Fun at Work Can Motivate Your
Employees, Inspire Your Coworkers, and Boost Your Bottom Line.
(New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 219 p.). Employee motivation;
Quality of work life; Incentives in industry.
William Foote Whyte, et al. (1977).
Money and Motivation: An Analysis of Incentives in Industry.
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 268 p. [orig. pub. 1955]).
Incentives in industry; Employee morale.
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