Solarcentury employees knit for success: Program gets employees firing on all cylinders

Abstract

Purpose

Describes how employees at UK solar‐energy company Solarcentury developed a more sustainable way of working, involving doing more with less stress.

Design/methodology/approach

Explains the theory behind the Energy Project Europe's Firing on All Cylinders program, how it was implemented at Solarcentury, and the results it has achieved.

Findings

Details how the program imparted physical, emotional and mental‐energy principles that helped the employees to turn their passion and purpose into an even greater strength and helped them to reduce the risks that often come with hard‐driving entrepreneurial cultures.

Practical implications

Highlights the importance of “focused sprint” working sessions and regular recovery breaks.

Social implications

Explains how people can get more done in less time and so do not need consistently to work longer hours and can achieve a better work‐life balance.

Originality/value

Describes a program that has helped employees to retain their entrepreneurial zeal, but with more focus.

Citation

(2010), "Solarcentury employees knit for success: Program gets employees firing on all cylinders", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 18 No. 7, pp. 12-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670731011083743