Sirota et al. (2005) describes building a positive workplace for employees as “winning the battle for the hearts of workers” (p.53), and they cite compelling evidence that illustrates the benefits of accomplishing this successfully. They created surveys that focused on questions such as whether employees were trusted to make their own decisions and make improvements to their own job, whether employees‘ achievements were recognized and rewarded, and whether the work environment was collaborative so that employees worked well together with minimal politics and conflicts. They issued these surveys to over 135,000 employees in 40 companies. From this data, they categorized the companies into high, moderate, and low morale, based on employees’ enthusiasm level. They then compared the stock market performance of each surveyed company with the performance of other companies in their industry. They found that the companies with high employee enthusiasm performed about 20% better than others in their industry, whereas the companies with moderate or low employee enthusiasm performed about 5% worse than others in their industry. The evidence shows that companies that are more divinely led experience better financial results.
