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They've got a job! What more could they want?

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From: Management Services
Date: 20051001
Author:Woodruffe, Charles

Having employees who are thoroughly motivated and truly engaged with what they are doing is the most powerful competitive weapon any organisation can enjoy. How do we achieve this ideal condition?

"I love work," the Victorian humourist Jerome K Jerome remarks in Three Men in a Boat, "I could watch it for hours." But the energy and sheer verve of his book leave us in no doubt that, in fact, he certainly did adore his work as a comic writer. The success of the book, which has never been out of print, reminds us that the fruits of truly passionate and devoted work can even live on beyond our ...

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