Building A High Morale Workplace [Paperback]

Anne Bruce (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 23, 2002

Now translated into 11 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level

All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.

A workplace environment should be upbeat and inspire superior employee commitment, morale, and performance. Building a High Morale Workplace provides dozens of techniques and examples for making any workplace a community, instead of a corporation. It shows managers how to help employees foster a genuine bond with an employer, turn around a negative workplace, create and sustain a positive attitude, and more.

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From the Back Cover

Workplace-Proven Tips and Tactics for Building Employee Spirit--and Accomplishment

Employees with high morale perform at significantly higher levels. So how can you, as a manager whose success depends on the performance of your employees, ensure consistently high enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale? Building a High Morale Workplace shows you how to create a fun, synergistic work environment, one designed to inspire superior employee commitment and performance, by:

• Building quality, one-to-one relationships with your employees
• Giving--and getting--valuable feedback
• Helping employees regain lost morale during difficult times

Employee morale is the wildcard in any management situation. And whether your organization is experiencing good times or bad, it is you--the manager--who is responsible for creating and maintaining superior employee morale. Let Building a High Morale Workplace, the latest value-packed guidebook in McGraw-Hill's popular Briefcase Books series, provide you with hands-on techniques and innovative strategies for keeping employee spirits high, and adding value to both your organization and your management career.

Briefcase Books, written specifically for today's busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page:

• Clear definitions of key terms, concepts, and jargon
• Sensible strategies for improving workplace morale
• How-to hints for creating a high-energy environment
• Advice to keep you from inadvertently damaging morale
• Warning signs of things going wrong when dealing with employees
• Stories and insights from the managing experiences of others

Specific steps for the implementation of morale-building procedures

About the Author

Anne Bruce is a nationally recognized speaker, workshop leader, and author. Her books include Motivating Employees and Leaders­­Start to Finish.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (September 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071406182
• ISBN-13: 978-0071406185
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #583,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anne Bruce dispenses humor, wisdom, wit, and practical insights from both the domestic and international speakers' platform. She's built a global reputation as an impactful human behaviorist, entertaining speaker on leadership motivation, advocate for branding talent, and bestselling author of 14 books.

Anne has had the privilege to speak, write or train for prestigious audiences and organizations, such as The White House, the Pentagon, Coca Cola, Southwest Airlines, MedAmerica Billing Services, Inc., Sprint, Sony International, JetBlue, Harvard and Standford Law Schools, Baylor Medical University, the Social Security Administration, the CIA and FBI, NASA, BestBuy, and GEICO.

Her books and programs have been translated into more than 24 languages worldwide. Anne has appeared on the CBS Evening News, the Charlie Rose Show and has contributed interviews to NBC, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, USAToday, The Times (London), and The Wall Street Journal.

For information on keynotes and training programs, fees and press interviews,
call: 214-507-8242, or visit www.AnneBruce.com. You also can email Anne at [e-mail].

Anne and her husband David live the beach life in Ventura, California. Anne is writing her first novel and screenplay.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding Book!, July 16, 2009

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Martin Gollery "Bioinformaticist" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building A High Morale Workplace (Paperback)

This is the first book that I have read from Anne Bruce, but it will not be the last. This is one of the best business books that I have ever read. Should be required reading for all managers. Upper management should reread it once per year.

All the points and little tricks that you see in books such as "Good to Great" or other popular business books will not mean a hill of beans if you do not get a handle on morale. You cannot motivate negative, cynical or burned out people by threatening to fire them or promising that their 2% raise might be boosted to 2.1%

Improve the workplace and you will boost sales, lower attrition and attract better talent.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all modern managers!!, December 9, 2002

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Vickie Bagnall (Carrollton, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building A High Morale Workplace (Paperback)

Anne Bruce is a great author who has written a book that has a message that is both easy to digest and also easy to apply to the modern workplace. Her style is smooth and all of her chapters build towards helping the reader understand the importance of improving morale in the workplace. Her examples are interesting, her teachings meaningful and her conclusions insightful. Morale building made easy .... what a great thought. I heartily recommend this well-written book to all Managers!!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Building A High Morale Workplace, December 5, 2002

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Brenda McClintock (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building A High Morale Workplace (Paperback)

Anne Bruce's "Building A High Morale Workplace" is a must read for anyone truly interested in making their work environment a happy and productive place. Her use of the Management experiences of others together with specific steps for implementing morale building procedures will prove to be an invaluable resource.