The Enthusiastic Employee

By David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael Irwin Meltzer
Reviewed by Kellie Fowler

If you’re a manager who’s looking to improve your team’s morale and performance, “The Enthusiastic Employee” is for you. This well-written, useful guide shows you exactly how to ensure your team members are satisfied, enhancing your organization (and your bottom line) one happy, enthusiastic employee at a time.

The book explores what works for well-known, long-lasting companies. It then balances this with the input of everyday workers and managers, who will open your eyes to what they like about their jobs and what they don’t.

The books authors, David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael Irwin Meltzer expertly bring together years of research and proven common sense to show you how you can increase employee enthusiasm, while better handling the ups and downs every manager faces (including layoffs), making it as practical for the new or small-business manager as it is for the seasoned CEO who heads-up a global company.

Not surprisingly, “The Enthusiastic Employee” points to management as the most likely reason for employee dissatisfaction, then gives a step-by-step guide that shows you how to avoid this pitfall by building a cohesive, productive team that is sure to last for the long-haul.

The book also looks at common business practices that serve to damage employee morale, such as constrained communications, showing how such constraints damage even the best motivational efforts by reinforcing employee’s sense of second-class citizenship within the organization.

And that’s not all. “The Enthusiastic Employee” takes any organization beyond just profits and shows managers how to cultivate pride (and enthusiasm) amongst employees, presenting solid information on what employees want, the important correlation between meeting these wants and business success, job security, compensation, respect, organization purpose, job enablement and job challenge, as well as feedback, recognition and reward, and finally teamwork.

This informative read is a real eye-opener, and a copy should be kept in every manager’s briefcase.

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