Yammer and Jive, for instance, promise to energize employees and increase their productivity by enabling fast information sharing.
In business, sharing the glory is often the easiest, cheapest, most efficient way for management to energize employees.
This both increases the risk of failure and misses the opportunity to energize employees and leapfrog the competition through community-driven change.
Talking about coffee will not re-energize employees at Starbucks and it will not drive innovation.
Trust-based management practices energize employees, which translates into more and better end products and ultimately productivity improvement.
Additionally, energized employees try to work a little bit harder and smarter and put a smile on people's faces and into client relationships.
"Stressing the new opportunities should energize the employees," said Willow Sheremata, who teaches technology management at Tulane University.
Unhealthy leadership and the culture it spawns typically disseminates downward to drain away high-performing, energized, engaged employee behavior, including the innovative teamwork companies need to stay nimble and competitive -- especially today.
Moreover, the program energized Dow by requiring employees to present the data and their proposed improvements directly to the critics.
Davis Logsdon, who supervised the survey for the University of Minnesota, said that Fiorina's entry into the Republican race had "energized" many former H.P. employees.
A Divine source says employees are energized by the new strategy, "because clearly the other thing wasn't working".
