Product Description

This title presents a powerfully positive system for gaining maximum performance from every employee. What motivates people? What encourages employees to work to their fullest potential, not just for a short while but for the long haul? Many managerial fads promising quick fixes have come and gone, but none have approached the success experienced by organizations that have employed Aubrey Daniel's groundbreaking motivational methods. "Bringing Out the Best in People", New and Updated Edition, provides the latest and best motivational methods currently in use at such major companies as Xerox, 3M, and Kodak.Applying scientifically based behavioral stimuli to the workplace while making it fun at the same time, author on performance, Aubrey Daniels, describes practical, precise, data-oriented methods to help you implement a management system that will maximize the long-term performance of every aspect of your company. All-new material shows you how to: create effective recognition and rewards systems in line with what today's employees want; stimulate innovation and creativity in new and exciting ways; and, overcome problems associated with poorly educated workforce. Here, you'll learn the secrets of: finding reinforces that work - and tailoring them to meet individual employees' needs; setting fair performance measurement standards - and implementing them with minimal cost and effort; providing continual feedback - so employees always know exactly how to improve performance...and when they've achieved it; and, much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136591 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 245 pages

Marketing, January 2, 2003
This is an excellent book with good ideas that can make a real difference

From the Back Cover
A powerfully positive system for gaining maximum performance from every employee.

What motivates people? What encourages employees to work to their fullest potential, not just for a short while but for the long haul? Many managerial fads promising quick fixes have come and gone, but none have approached the success experienced by organizations that have employed Aubrey Daniel's groundbreaking motivational methods. Bringing Out the Best in People, New & Updated Edition, provides the latest and best motivational methods currently in use at such major companies as Xerox, 3M, and Kodak. Applying scientifically based behavioral stimuli to the workplace while making it fun at the same time, author on performance, Aubrey Daniels, describes practical, precise, data-oriented methods to help you implement a management system that will maximize the long-term performance of every aspect of your company.

All-new material shows you how to:

Create effective recognition and rewards systems in line with what today's employees want; Stimulate innovation and creativity in new and exciting ways; Overcome problems associated with poorly educated workforce.

Here, you'll learn the secrets of:
Finding reinforces that work - and tailoring them to meet individual employees' needs. Setting fair performance measurement standards - and implementing them with minimal cost and effort. Providing continual feedback - so employees always know exactly how to improve performance...and when they've achieved it. And much more!

About the Author
Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D., is the president of Aubrey Daniels & Associates, Inc. (Atlanta, GA), a management consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in productivity, quality, cost, and morale. One of the foremost speakers and writers in the human resources field, he has instituted his performance management system at more than two hundred organizations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, France, and Italy, and has worked closely with such noted clients as 3M, GTE, Rubbermaid, and Honeywell. Dr. Daniels is also the founder and PUblisher of Performance Management magazine.

Customer Reviews

Breakthrough in business literature
Business is characterized by a lot of common sense solutions. But in fact, the many books that are released articulate only the particular view and experiences of the author. A scientific based book about how to understand and change behavior in organizations was lacking. Aubrey Daniels has made the remarkable accomplishment of writing a book that is both strongly based in the science of behavior analysis, as easy to read and to use. This is one of the best books that has been written about business, also because it demonstrates that business is behavior.

Drs. M.M. Rietdijk, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands

One of the most insightful books you will EVER read!
Excellent! It is a genuine relief to find a book of this calibre. If the title leads some to believe they will learn a magical, quick fix technique, then they will be disappointed. Those that genuinely seek to bring about change and improvement should read this, apply as much as they possibly can... and then read it again. Invaluable.

Excellent,superior, one of the best.
Simple and straight forward. Great guide to understand human behavior and an outstanding blue print for controlling consequinces. Without a doubt one of the best, if not the best, books on motivation that I have ever read. Why and how to. Rudy Andl, Pres. IBC Recruiting Services Inc. IBCRecruiting.com