How Vibrant Workplaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success
Employee empowerment
That term is being thrown around so often these days, that any connotations surrounding it seems to lose its importance and value.
Many organizations have used employee empowerment as leverage to exhibit a sense of organic workplace structure, but most have not successfully invested enough resources to maximize the full potential possessed by employees, which is the case, presented by Dr. Graham Lowe.
Dr. Graham Lowe, professor emeritus in Sociology at the University of Alberta and one of Canada’s foremost experts on workforce effectiveness, has recently released his latest book, Creating Healthy Organizations: How Vibrant Workplaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success (University of Toronto Press).
Dr. Lowe emphasizes not only in the introduction that successful organizations concern themselves not only by fostering a strong operating philosophy, but that successful organizations take care of their employees – down to expressing concern for the physical and mental health of their most important resources throughout the entire book.
This idea is prominent throughout the book, and relates back to effective employee empowerment using relevant and successful Canadian examples, enabling readers to understand issues – with a Canadian spin.
The subject matter flows evenly from painting a picture to how a healthy organization should function, and what employees should expect from their employers, equating successful organizations to the wellness of their employees, to understanding how effective leadership sets model behaviour, to finally implementing and measuring the success of the efforts.
This methodical approach to growing a healthy environment might appear to be very systematic, but what makes this very interesting is that this whole book gives such a clear picture on an approach that is gaining momentum in the marketing and business world, an internal holistic approach to employee motivation.
This book guides readers to distinguish what employees should expect from their employers, and conversely, what employers can do to manage these expectations.
Any students wanting to gain more knowledge in appreciating solid organizational structure – not limiting the content of the book to human resource majors, and even students that are looking to effectively understand one of the largest components of next generation marketing -valuing employees and the necessity of a solid relationship for organizational success – can learn a thing or two from this solid read.
What is also critical to note is that Dr. Lowe clearly outlines a solid way to gauge the success of implementing any strategies an organization might decide to pursue – ever increasingly important in the metrics-based business world.
Creating Healthy Organizations: How Vibrant Worklaces Inspire Employees to Achieve Sustainable Success, by Graham Lowe is available at all major book-retailers. 256 pgs, University of Toronto Press.
- Michael Chu
