Stop Demotivating Your Employees!
Posted by Amitai Givertz on Thu, Feb 08, 2007
I came across a Harvard Management Update entitled Stop Demotivating Your Employees!
The authors (David Sirota, Louis Mischkind and Michael Meltzer) claim that most employers have things backwards. Rather than worry about motivating their employees, they should stop their managers from demoralizing them.
Surveys of approximately 1.2 million employees at 52 companies — primarily Fortune 1000 firms — reveal that in about 85% of firms, employee morale drops sharply after the first six months of employment and continues downward from then on.
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