Check energy in your organisation and charge your battery. Follow interesting findings about organisational energy index in Slovenian companies

2. Organisational Energy
concept
FULLY CHARGED
What do we actually need for
perform better – IQ or EQ
Dr. Heike Bruch and Dr. Daniela Brečko

3. What is Organizational Energy?
Organizational Energy is the force with
which an organization works.
The strength of Organizational Energy manifests in the extent to
which a company has mobilized its emotional, cognitive, and
behavioral potential in pursuit of its goals.
© Prof. Heike Bruch 3

4. Relevance of Organizational Energy
Lack of energy manifests as...
Change tiredness
(Buchanan/Claydon/Doyle, 1999)
Cynicism
(Dean/Brandes/Dharwadkar, 199
8)
Lack of innovation
(Su
© Prof. Heike ll, 2003)
Bruch 4

5. Different States of
Organizational Energy
Corrosive Productive
high
Energy Energy
Intensity
Resigned Comfortable
low
Inertia Energy
negative positive
Quality
Source: Bruch & Ghoshal (2003): Unleashing Organizational Energy, MIT Sloan Management Review
© Prof. Heike Bruch 5

6. • negative internal tension •Clear focus
• conflicts • High attention
• rumurs visoka • Intensive work
• co-operation
• lack of problem solving
• searching for solutions in teams
• no teamwork
(together), take action to resolve
• high level of negative stress
the problems
• unclear goals • high performance
• Unclear work instruction • positive exitement, always
• People are often engage in looking for new opportunities
activities to weaken others • are proud on their work
• the company are often cynical •are inspired on ther job
of company goals or Corosive Productive
objectives. Energy energy
• lack of motivation • lasy athmosfere
• no activities, • calmness, satisfaction
• bad communication • easy work, easy tempo
• emotional burnout Resigned Inertia Comfortable Energy • lack of tendness, lack of „live“
 people are depressed in • no actions
their job. • employees are to much satisfy
 are discouraged in their with their curent work tasks
job. • doing by old patterns
 believe there is no • Are easy in their jobs
"future" in our work.

7. „The crisis carried us to the limits of our
possibilities. It was difficult but no one
complained. In contrast, we enjoyed the
challenging situation. We achieved things,
we had never believed to be possible. We
were surprised at the enormous energy
which was revealed in that period of time.
(Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Until 2010 CEO Lufthansa
AG)

8. Consequences of
Selected Energy States
Companies with high productive Companies with high corrosive
energy… energy…
turnover
intentions
+ 14,4% + 13,9%
+12,1% +12,1%
+ 6,9% efficiency
org. per- of business customer employee
+2,3% formanc processes ROI growth satisfaction satisfaction
-8,1% e
+ 16,6%
org. per- efficiency ROI growth customer employee
formance of business satisfaction satisfaction
processes
turnover
intentions
- 13,3%
based on a sample of 104 companies in 2007, 2008, 2009 - 16,4%
- 17,6%
- 24,6% - 19,8% - 19,7%
Source: Study of the Institute of Leadership and Human
Resources Management , University of St. Gallen,
Survey results from more than 500 companies (2007-2009)

9. 2006/2011
PE– 69%
CE – 52 % PE– 48%
RI – 49% CE– 36 %
KE – 49 % RI – 35%
KE – 56 %

10. …HOW WE ARE
DOING?

11. PE– 81%
EUI – 74 %
ERI – 12%
KE – 18 %
10 % of best German companies i (all together 187 companies and 24.000 emloyess,
(H. Bruch, B. Vogl, 2011)

12. SLOVENIAN
OE INDEKS 2011
OE INDEX Productive Comfortable Resigned Corosive
Energy Energy Inertia energy
Slovenija 2006 48% 36% 35% 56%
Slovenija 2011 69% 49% 52% 49%
Benchmarking 81% 75% 12% 18%

13. HOW TO READ AND UNDERSTAND OE INDEX
PE CE RI CE
Productive Comfortable Resigned Corosive
energy energy Inertia energy energy
75% 70 % or more up to 25% up to 25 %
Ideal 80% But PE must be
equal or higher
Slovenia 2011 69% 49% 52% 49%

14. Excellence is in People, not in processes
CONCLUSION:
Measure and consciously use the
Energy of Your Company
For increasing productive energy, lead
not only in a transactional but especially
also in a transformational way. Inspiring!
Take Charge of Your Own Energy