McGraw Hill Briefcase s Motivating Employees麦格劳希尔公文包激励员工.pdfVIP

3 Encouraging Entrepreneurial Thinking f you want your employees to be motivated to do their best, Iand if you want them to be the most valuable asset on your balance sheet, then let them feel and experience ownership in the organization. Effective managers make every employee feel like a business partner. Why? Because when people feel ownership of something, they look out for it. Make Everyone Feel like a Business Partner Encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset goes beyond profit sharing and stock options. It’s a motivating attitude instilled in others by you, the manager. We see this attitude demonstrated and translated into profits in companies such as Hewlett- Packard, Southwest Airlines, Nordstrom, Intel, Starbucks, Wal- Mart, Microsoft, and hundreds of smaller companies, where employees are motivated to take exceptional pride in their work because they’re treated like business partners, not hired help. 23 24 Motivating Employees How do you create Entrepreneurial mindset As it’s used here, we mean such an atmosphere of “thinking like a business entrepreneurial attitudes owner.” Although the term can be and pride? You begin by used to characterize somebody who understanding and acts independently, perhaps even as a acknowledging that maverick, it’s intended here to convey employees today want a a sense of feeling joint ownership, of say in how the organiza- being a partner in a business, and car- tion is being run. Their ing about the success of that business. input can be extremely powerful, espec