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You deserve milions views. You are right on spot, great breakdown. This is a comment of a person that runs a team builing company for almost 20 years now and I concur with everything you said.
You can extend this idea also to help teach one of your people how to convince you or their argument. Many people might have a good idea and a bad sales pitch, and that can be a very valuable way to mentor, and even better make sure the best ideas and not best sales pitches make it to the final round
I worked for a homeland security lab in NJ, witnessing and experiencing myself abuse of some independently thinking employees by management as well as the abuse of quality and statistical science. After the annual employee surveys at both the homeland security lab and its former aviation organization across the street, managers would hold postmortem meetings to identify low scorers and attempt to intimidate them. Apart from contaminating the survey, the survey itself and managerial "analysis" of the results were also problematic. And, the remedies were designed to fail when the management tried to gaslight staff and redirect attention to trivial mattress, as opposed to taking some accountability for their mismanagement and politicking to reinforce and protect their positions. They were deluded, unwilling to accept responsibility for their own failures, opting for a gaslit interpretation and fun and games fixes. No chance at reform when those who need to reform are controlling and unwilling to break their addictive thinking so damaging to the missions.
Sadly l came across Team Leaders who think that the team members work for HIM. He use to say " I AM THE BOSS!" all the time. We lost all respect for the guy.
FYI from my experience as an employee, My Philosophy is never ever trust management. I've seen these surveys used against us so I always declined to take these types of surveys if I'm ever asked to fill one out. But hey that's just me.
I know a LOT of leaders who truly do use this survey to help improve their organization. But I also know of a lot of managers who feel these surveys are used to judge their performance and try to manipulate it accordingly.
This was evident in a UK TV show called " Back to the Floor" , ( This was before Undercover Boss). On that show, CEO"s/MD's, were tasked to do menial tasks. All of them said that theu weren't aware on the day to day task that the shop floor workers did in that organisation.
@@DavidBurkus What was best thing about the show was that the CEO's/MD's would go back to the head office and tell the senior board of directors that changes needs to be done within the organisation. Some of CEO's/MD's even stated " I have a better understanding organisation and changes need to put into place" . Majority of times the other board members became "yes men" and totally agree with what the CEO's/MD's stated. On occasions the CEO's/MD's challenges the other board members to go "Back to the Floor", to gain a better grasp of the organisations dynamics.
Hello Have you heard of chanakya Neeti. You talk and idea work in top Multi national companies like Microsoft etc. And non of em would come to my city 😂 Best regards ✨️
I walked out of my workplace after serving for 7 years, boss decided to throw my coffee away knowing I just bought it- I got tired of new people with no skills getting more benefits than myself and also the nepotism
Sometimes corporate businesses are impossible to work for because they are so rich they lose connection at the lower level. All they are worried about is WallStreet numbers. 5 years ago I was a maintenance guy for Arby's. My owner was a small franchise owner owning about 5 Arby's and he let me fix minor things that's did not require a license. I worked for him for 9 years and then he sold to the Flynn Restaurant Group which owns 30,000 chains, ie Taco bell, Panera bread, Arby's, Planet fitness and more. The regional manager came up to me and said to me that Flynn group does not recognize the maintenance position at the local level, give us your keys and by the way your still an employee, but since your not a manager you do not have any vacation and other benefits either. That shit pissed me off. I refuse to eat at any Fynn group or do business with them to this day.. They had their own maintenance guys who drove from Utah to Northern Idaho (800 miles) just to fix something. I bet the gas cost 500 $ round trip just to fix a wall outlet and a few light ballasts. In the past i would go to Home depot get a light Ballast, 20 bucks go back to Arby's and replace the broken light ballast. Instead this Fynn group decides to spend more money than they needed to. They did not know how good they had it, instead they threw it away ( local maintenance) and opted to spend more money than they needed to. They had their own hvac guys from Utah and all i had was cet electrical certificate. It's like they walked in and said go home we run this show now.
The problem is that companies want workers who will commit themselves and be loyal…..but Ive yet to work for a company that wants to give that back to their employee. They don’t even see us as human. We are numbers, that make numbers so that the higher ups can take more fancy holidays and buy designer bags….while we have 3 roommates in our 30’s because we can’t afford to live.
Firing an employee is easy for unskilled work, but if the position is an licensed electrician the employer may take a year to find someone qualified. I would even go as far to say if the position is a senior electrical engineer. It would take 2 years to find someone of that caliber. masters degree in electrical engineer, 5 years experience, c plus , plus, Linux , cad certifications etc... Good luck firing him and replacing him. The employer is better off working with the problem and resolving the issue at hand with the employee. Like i said if you remove the employee the employer might get screwed because i bet there are only less than 1 percent of the job force that chose electrical engineers in all the usa. The rest of the skilled trade are lawyers,doctors,hvac,plumber,framer,electricians,truck drivers. ect...
I think in almost ALL situations the employer is better off trying to work through the problem with employees. But sometimes...you reach a point where more trying just doesn't work.
your key word here was "experiences" When a diverse team have experience in the field a project falls under, they will excel, however, if diversity is the only thing brought to the table, a room full of identical faces with related experience will always do better
