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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 youre 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 worlds 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 youll 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.

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Motivating Employees For Dummies

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Copyright 2001 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

Copyright 2001 Text (and any other Author Created Materials) Copyright Robert Half International Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Published simultaneously in Canada

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About the Author

Max Messmer is chairman and chief executive officer of Robert Half International Inc., the worlds largest specialized staffing firm, and a widely recognized expert on employment and management issues.

Messmers previous titles for Wiley Publishing include Managing Your Career For Dummies (2000), Human Resources Kit For Dummies (1999), Job Hunting For Dummies (1995) and Job Hunting For Dummies , 2nd Edition (1999). He has also authored several other critically acclaimed books, such as The Fast Forward MBA in Hiring (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998), 50 Ways to Get Hired (William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1994) and Staffing Europe (Acropolis Books Ltd., 1991). Messmer has written numerous articles and columns on job seeking, employment, and management topics, and his expertise has been featured in major business publications, including Fortune , Forbes , and The Wall Street Journal .

Robert Half International (NYSE symbol: RHI), a Fortune 1000 firm, has appeared for three consecutive years on the Forbes Platinum List of top business services firms for investor returns and growth. In addition, Fortune magazine included the company on its roster of Americas Most Admired Companies, ranking it first among all staffing services firms for the past two consecutive years. And RHI recently became the first staffing firm to be added to Standard & Poors widely tracked S&P 500 index.

Founded in 1948, the company now has seven divisions: Accountemps, Robert Half and RHI Management Resources, for temporary, full-time, and project professionals, respectively, in the fields of accounting and finance; OfficeTeam, for highly skilled temporary administrative support; RHI Consulting, for information technology professionals; The Affiliates, for temporary, project and full-time staffing of attorneys and specialized support personnel within law firms and corporate legal departments; and The Creative Group, for creative, advertising, marketing, and web design professionals on a project basis. The company serves its clients and job candidates through more than 300 offices in North America, Europe, and Australia, and through online job search services for each division, accessible at www.rhii.com .

Messmer is a member of the board of directors of several major corporations, including Airborne Freight Corporation, Health Care Property Investors, Inc., and Spieker Properties, Inc. Previously, he served on the boards of First Interstate Bancorp, NationsBank (of North Carolina), Pacific Enterprises, and Southern California Gas Company. During the administration of President Ronald Reagan, he served two years on the Presidents Advisory Committee on Trade. Messmer was valedictorian of his graduating class at Loyola University in New Orleans. He graduated cum laude from the New York University School of Law.

Dedication

To all of my colleagues at Robert Half International, who are the foundation for the companys success. And especially for Marcia, Matthew, and Michael, who are the source of my own motivation.

Authors Acknowledgments

This book was made possible by a number of highly motivated people who offered their expertise and insight throughout the process. First of all, thank you to Lynn Taylor, vice president of research, who co-developed this book and has been a noted media source for more than a decade on emerging workplace issues. I would also like to acknowledge several of my RHI colleagues for their invaluable help in this project: Lynn Glaiser, group manager of editorial services; Reesa Staten, director of corporate communications; Laurel Goddard; and Natalie Coleman. Special thanks also go to Kelly Ewing, Marinell Jochnowitz, and Dawn Guthart for their research and assistance.

I also want to acknowledge Mr. Robert Half, our companys founder and my friend, who through his own motivation and pioneering spirit launched one of the most successful and respected companies in the world.

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