1. Introduction: The Role and Impact of Workplace Humor Workplace humor is a common aspect of many professional environments, often seen as a way to alleviate stress, foster camaraderie, and enhance overall workplace satisfaction. However, while humor can be a powerful tool for building relationships and promoting a positive work atmosphere, it also carries inherent…
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The Tyranny of Middle Class Values and How Some Think About Work
Employee Engagement? Who Cares! I wrote on the human resources discussion list, a short piece that was stimulated by one consultant’s praise for the employment engagement concept, one that, by the way, I abhor for a number of reasons. The gist is that pretty much all the fads that get popular — employee engagement, autonomy,…
Creating An Environment Where Employees Can Find Meaning In Their Work
How To Avoid Dangling Employees The second of the twelve Gallup questions that ties into employee engagement is: Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important? It’s no surprise that this is on the list. You already know from your own personal experience that if you feel there’s “no point” to a particular…
Multiple Meanings For Employee Engagement A Serious Problem
Stripping The Jargon Away From Employee Engagement Unless you read research journals that are often not available for free online, you’ll probably be surprised that there is no single, common definition of “employee engagement”. That’s one of the criticisms quietly levelled at the concept. Because of this, it’s very difficult to communicate with others about…
Herzberg Applied To Employee Engagement Explains Why Companies Can’t Raise Employee Engagement
Why It’s Easier To Destroy Employee Engagement Than Improve It In the late 1950’s and 1960’s, psychologist Frederick Herzberg suggested and researched a rather simple, and common sense like explanation about what motivates and demotivates people at work. Herzberg can be applied to the problem of why companies are unable to raise employee engagement. Herzberg’s Motivation…
Employee Engagement Affected By Literally Hundreds Of “Microfactors”
Why Companies Haven’t Succeeded In Improving Employee Engagement While we’ve stated that organizations are not in control of many of the factors that affect employees’ desire to work hard for a company, it’s obvious that there are still factors under the control of the company, how it functions, and so on that have to have…