Why we are losing motivation on the jobs
A survey conducted by Sirota Survey Intelligence (Purchase, New York) found the great majority of employees are quite enthusiastic when they start a new job. But in about 85% of companies (52 primarily Fortune 1000 companies with total 1.2 million employees), employees morale sharply declines after their first 6 months and continues to deteriorate for years afterward, and ( to my surprise) the numbers are the same no matter the company size.
A recent HBS article did a superb job of analyzing above data. According to authors, following management practices will diminishes or even destroys employee's enthusiasm.
- Many companies treat employees as disposable;
- Employees generally receive inadequate recognition and reward;
- Management inadvertently makes it difficult for employees to do their jobs. Excessive levels of required approvals, endless paperwork, insufficient training, failure to communicate, infrequent delegation of authority, and a lack of a credible vision contribute to employees' frustration.
posted by Job Pundit at 5/04/2006
3 Comments:
What about the stress that comes from having incompetent, intolerable supervisors?
Sad isn't it? =o(
I guess it gives us working bees more of a challenge to ride the 'happy wagon'
This is spot on.
I work for a large company. Technically, I work for an outside temp agency, though I'm classified as a contractor so it looks better for them. Most of the people I work with are temps, and then a few people with the exact same job are permanent employees for some reason. The permanent employees at my job do less work than everyone, but get paid more. It makes the temps, sorry, contractors, not want to work very hard.
We have these surveys about job satisfaction, with questions about whether we get recognized when we do something good. The catch? Only permanent employees get to fill out the surveys. We have yearly mandatory meetings where all the big wigs in the building get together and pat themselves on the back in front of the rest of us. They announced that our department had the highest level of satisfaction regarding getting recognition for a job well done. I couldn't believe it. Nobody cares if you do a decent job, but if you're one of the 20% of the staff that gets paid more and actually gets to take survey, I guess it skews things.
And on the final point, management in my building is entirely ineffective. None of them seem to communicate with each other in any way, because they'll give us conflicting info. At every single meeting, management demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what we're doing from day to day.
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