Motivating Employees For Dummies - Max Messmer

Motivating Employees For Dummies shows business leaders how to communicate effectively with employees, increase their sense of responsibility, and promote excellent teamwork. Full of creative solutions to almost every kind of day-to-day situation, this handy guide offers everything business leaders need to increase employee performance and morale.
Whether you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, the owner of a mom-and-pop shop, or a manager with just a handful of employees under you, Motivating Employees For Dummies shows you how to get more effort and production from employees -- without threats or intimidation. For anyone who needs to understand and master simple, effective motivational techniques, this book covers all the bases:

Learn to communicate with employees

Provide a strategic vision that motivates others

Create a dynamic, inspiring workplace and corporate culture

Show employees you care

Establish a mentoring program

Design a fair and motivational compensation scheme

Encourage workplace diplomacy -- not politics

Expert author Max Messmer -- Chairman and CEO of the world's largest specialized staffing firm -- reveals the secret (and not so secret) tricks to motivating employees in a positive manner. From communication to compensation and everything in between, he covers all the angles, giving you the tools and techniques you need to get fair effort for fair pay from the people who work for you. Inside you'll find how to:

See how your firm rates in employee motivation

Establish values and ethics your people can believe in

Encourage and manage employee feedback and suggestions

Foster creativity and open thinking

Choose the right medium for communicating with employees

Manage the appraisal process

Recognize and reward effort and success

Understand and promote true teamwork

Manage motivation through downsizing or mergers

Deal with negative attitudes and habitual behaviors

Today it is more important than ever that business leaders find effective, employee friendly ways to motivate their people. This handy guide offers all the tools and ideas you need to keep your employees happy and productive.