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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bruch, Heike
• Vogel, Bernd

Titel

Strategies for creating and sustaining organizational energy

Ist Teil von

• Employment Relations Today, 2011-06, Vol.38 (2), p.51-61

Ort / Verlag

Hoboken: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Most leaders have experienced the ebb and flow of different states of energy in their own organizations. They call this phenomenon organizational energy and define it as the extent to which an organization, division, or team has mobilized its emotional, cognitive, and behavioral potential to pursue its goals. The quality of organizational energy describes how a company uses its energy -- to what extent the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral forces align constructively with common, central company goals. To jump-start the company toward productive energy, leaders must help their organizations identify either a major threat or challenge (the dragon) or a promising opportunity (the princess) -- and then involve their organizations in overcoming the challenge or taking advantage of it. In the end, the effort of the management team to proactively strengthen the employees' confidence -- by helping them to slay the dragon of bad publicity -- made all the difference.