How to Energize Your Workplace
This book uses energy as a measurement to describe the power of positive and negative connections in people's experiences at work. Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.
Energize Your Workplace: How To Build and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work
Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow upenergy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-qualityrelationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to dowork and do it well. Grounded in solid research, this book uses energy as ameasurement to describe the power of positive and negativeconnections in people's experience at work. Author Jane Duttonprovides three pathways for turning negative connections intopositive ones that create and sustain employee resilience andflexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, andbuild individual commitment and cooperation. Through compelling and illustrative stories, Energize YourWorkplace offers managers, executives, and human resourceprofessionals the resources they need to build high-qualityconnections in the workplace.
Dutton, J. E. 2003. Energize your workplace: How to build and sustain high-quality connections at work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.