Engaging Books

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Comment by Lodi Planting on November 22, 2011 at 4:20am

I have created a list of all the books I know about employee engagement on my new website www.retentie-management.com. To view this list you can surf to: http://www.retentie-management.com/resources/literatuurlijst/ . For some books I already made a review (in Dutch). You are all more then happy to add books.

Comment by Lisa Forsyth on June 20, 2011 at 5:44pm

I recently finished a second reading of Leadership and Self-Deception from The Arbinger Institute, and highly recommend it for those who find themselves frustrated by the politics or inertia within an organization, or anyone who finds their own engagement waning.  It happens to the best of us, and when it does, pick up this book, discover how your “in the box” thinking is the problem, and get out of the box!

Comment by Roy Saunderson on August 4, 2010 at 8:53am

Check out "Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research"Edited by Arnold B. Bakker, Michael P. Leiter. It has some great chapters by leading academic researchers - so it provides some great theoretical models and a ton of ideas to swim your thoughts through on "work engagement" - which I think I am starting to prefer over employee engagement.

ISBN: 978-1-84169-736-9 Published this year in March 9th 2010 by Psychology Press.

Comment by Adam Hibbert on June 10, 2010 at 9:05am

btw, if anyone's aware of Heron's bio, I'd love to add him to an article I'm doing at the moment - he was Director of Labour Relations at a Californian corp in the 30s and 40s, an associate prof at Stanford, and became a bit of an engagement guru in the first flush of engagement thinking in the late 40s and 50s. He's referred to as Colonel Heron here and there, so may have learned some of his craft in the US army?

Any suggestions as to where I could track down more biog detail?

Comment by Adam Hibbert on June 9, 2010 at 10:35am

Just received my much-anticipated copy of Sharing Information with Employees, by Alexander R. Heron (1942). It's all about engaging employees, though mostly in less high-falutin' language than we're used to these days. Loving it, so far. Heron was a director of industrial relations with a Californian paper milling company in the 30s/40s, and an adjunct professor at Stanford.

Plus ca change ...

Comment by Sybil F. Stershic on June 9, 2010 at 9:39am

Just reviewed Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's new book about the company's incredible culture and brand. And I've got an extra copy that I'll be giving away. Check out the details of this book review and giveaway.

Comment by Sybil F. Stershic on April 21, 2010 at 9:40am

I'm giving away a free copy of Re-Engage by Branham & Hirschfeld. Check out the details on my April 20th blog post.

Comment by Sybil F. Stershic on April 13, 2010 at 9:47am

Re-Engage (How America's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort in Extraordinary Times), the new book by Leigh Branham and Mark Hirschfeld is one I'm highly recommending to my clients and colleagues. I just posted a review of it on my blog.

I'm also adding it to my "Recommended Resources" workshop handout that also includes my book: Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most: A Guide to Employee-Cust....

Comment by Bill Scott on April 12, 2010 at 4:07pm

Not being a published author, yet, I'll have to recommend the work of Dan Pink who I think has a remarkable way with words. His new book Drive is absolutely superb. Great stories, insightful explanations of how we got to here and how we can get to there. I'm also impressed with his practical Toolkit -- very much akin to the Toolkit he put together for A Whole New Mind. I'll be appreciatively reviewing Drive soon on my website (www.elpisconsulting.com). Look for it there ... then! :-)

Comment by David Bowles on March 13, 2010 at 1:27am

I'm going to be biased like Brad and recommend my book on morale and performance titled "Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times" (Macmillan, Nov 2009). Lots of great research with cooperation from Gallup, Mercer, Sirota, etc. and the best academic studies available, plus research work I have done during 25 years as a management consultant, some of which has never been published. You can learn how morale/engagement not only correlate with, but drive performance in key areas such as customer satisfaction, productivity, profitability and even employee and organizational health. The book debunks current myths of morale/engagement and looks at worldwide trends. It also takes a hard look at benchmarks of engagement ("norms") and their usefulness (or lack thereof) and provides state-of-the-art methods for mining your morale/engagement data. My co-author is Professor Cary Cooper, recently named as one of the top 5 Industrial/Organizational psychologists in the world. Check it all out at:
www.moraleatwork.com

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