ENERGIZE YOUR WORKPLACE: HOW TO CREATE AND SUSTAIN HIGH-QUALITY CONNECTIONS AT WORK

Market_Desc: · Managers and Executives who are concerned with employee productivity, learning, resilience, and commitment· HR Managers

Special Features: · Dutton wrote an article on this topic, entitled Leading in Times of Trauma, for HBR that appeared in the January 2002 issue· Provides practical steps to enhance the quality of relationships at work: 3 pathways for turning negative relationships into positive ones· Cartoons, figures, tables, and the like will help animate and deepen understanding for the reader· This is the 16th book in the UMBS series

About The Book: In a world of continuous change, downsizing, and a press for speed, high quality relationships are extremely valuable: they create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility; facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation. The aim of this book is to help individuals think creatively about ways to build high quality relationships at work. Using energy as a measurement, the author describes the power of positive and negative connections in people s experience at work and provides three pathways for turning negative relationships into positive ones.