“My organization is having an excellent financial year, so most employees are excited. On the downside, because there is very little loyalty
in either direction, it’s in the back of everyone’s mind that if things go
bad, no one is safe.”
“Current threatened layoffs make employee morale low.”
“We worked hard on improvement projects a few years ago. As a
result, we had some inertia to move forward. Since the recession hit,
that has all died. Now there are not enough people to work on new
projects. Everyone is so stretched, changing the goal to maintaining the
status quo.”
“I work for a state institution. Budgets have just been slashed, pay
increases are not even mentioned, and classified service contracts are
way behind and further delayed by legislators. It’s hard to say why
employees would feel any kind of optimism. Those of us responsible
to keep operations going need to focus on nonmonetary rewards of
working together and serving the needs of our stakeholders.”
“Economic turnaround (negative) has created nonproductive management. Economic fraud has created high governance and lowered creativity. Creative management has been pushed out of [our]
organization to make place for governance and red tape.”
“A Tale of Two Companies: In all ‘mergers of equals,’ one partner
always seems to come out on top, more equal. We’ve completed just
such a merger. Two CEOs, one leaves, the other wins. The subsequent
reorganization will benefit the operating company of the remaining
CEO. Most of the jobs and promotions are taking place in that city.