Prof: January Pearson
Kaplan University
December 4, 2014
By,
Heather Leigh Bradley
Annotated Bibliography
Thesis Statement: The most successful companies are those that are operated by leaders who invest in and grow their employees.
Bruce, A., & Pepitone, J. S. (1999). Motivating Employees. New York: McGraw-Hill. “Motivating Employees” is a book about how employee motivation is driven by companies that invest and grow their employees. One of the most important traits of highly effective and successful companies is that employees are happy and have fun at work. Leadership is not assaulting your employees, but to lead your employees you need to motivate by using caring, inspiring, empowering, teaching, growing, investing and your employees will follow and want to contribute. Assaulting as in forcing, criticizing, and bossing your employees around will not only wear them down and unmotivated them but it will exhaust the boss as well. This book is a great resource for my paper because it supports that leaders grow their employees and make them happy. It lists the key traits to successful companies are employee happiness and what tactics these successful companies do to offer employee happiness. Having happy employees means they are productive, motivated, and care about their job. Employee happiness helps grow the success of these companies because it takes a team to get the work done and make a company successful. This is a reliable source because it is from Kaplan Library and the authors are very creditable within the business and educational world. This eBook is an Academic creditable source.
Crevani, L., Lindgren, M., & Packendorff, J. (2009). We Don’t Need Another Hero: Towards The Study of Leadership as Everyday Practices. This academic paper that is only available through academic sources on the web. It covers the key traits of leaders and why they are so inspirational to not
Bibliography: Bruce, A., & Pepitone, J. S. (1999). Motivating Employees. New York: McGraw-Hill. P. Dixon. (2014, April 4) Create Passion at Work in 3 Minutes! Secrets of Team Motivation and Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHPFlVtIteg