Energize Your Workplace: How to Create and Sustain High-Quality Connections at Work

by Jane E. Dutton

Overview

Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow up energy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do work and do it well.

Grounded in solid research, this book uses energy as ameasurement to describe the power of positive and negative connections in people's experience at work. Author Jane Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.

Through compelling and illustrative stories, Energize Your Workplace offers managers, executives, and human resource professionals the resources they need to build high-quality connections in the workplace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787956226
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/08/2003
Series:	J-B-UMBS Series , #5
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.39(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Jane E. Dutton is the William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration at The University of Michigan. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in the area of relational work in organizations, which have appeared in Academyof Management Review, Strategic Thinking, and Administrative Science Quarterly, among others. Dutton's article, "Leading in Times of Trauma," appeared in the January 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword xiii

Preface xv

1 Creating Energy Through High-Quality Connections 1

2 Respectful Engagement 21

3 Task Enabling 51

4 Trusting 79

5 Dealing with Corrosive Connections 109

6 Building High-Quality Connections in Your Organization 139

Notes 175

The Author 191

Index 193

Editorial Reviews

"... simple practical guide to communication in the work place, and the positive effects it can have...." (M2 Best Books, May 2004)

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