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"Profitability is the Key to Value. If You've Got it, Flaunt It. If You Don't Have It, Get It (business strategy). If You Can't Get It, Get Out (capital strategy)."

--- Bill Fruhan, Professor of Finance, Harvard Business School, author of: Financial Strategy: Studies in the Creation, Transfer, and Destruction of Shareholder Value.

(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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