Management: clueless

Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, October 23rd, 2009 - 5 comments
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Saw this article on Stuff yesterday:

Employers and employees have dramatically different opinions of why workers remain in their jobs, says research released on Tuesday showing US companies may struggle to retain employees in an improved job market.

Employees cite benefits, financial compensation, and their career growth and earnings potential as the top three reasons they stay in their jobs, according to a survey by Spherion Corp, a recruiting and staffing company.

Their employers list management climate, supervisor relationships and culture and work environment as the top reasons they think employees stay, it said.

Employers listed benefits, financial compensation, and growth and earnings below those factors, and employees put management climate, culture and work environment and their supervisor relationship much lower on their list, it said.

Shows what a deluded world many managers live in. They don’t even understand why we are working under them.

It’s obvious that workers work first and foremost because it’s a source of income. As a secondary concern, we want to be treated like humans while we’re at it. When did you ever hear of workers striking for better “management climate, supervisor relationships and culture and work environment”?

Just confirms that many managers have the house slave attitude. In love with their employer, they believe what’s good for the boss is good for them. They think we feel the same way (even more laughably, they think the boss loves them back).

Managers, listen up: we don’t want your ‘caring culture and work environment’. It’s just an attempt to buy us off cheaply. We want our fair share of the wealth we produce. We work so we can get paid so we can afford to live our lives and raise our families.

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  1. A Nonny Moose 1
    23 October 2009 at 12:25 pm

    I’m not so stupid as to know that my staff are here to make a living. Sometimes in middle management, you don’t have a whole lot of control over their wages – I can only make suggestions to upper management.

    What I do have within my power is to make a friendly environment. I advocate on behalf of all my staff – we’re not all ogres.

  2. Draco T Bastard 2
    23 October 2009 at 2:05 pm

    we don’t want your ‘caring culture and work environment’.

    Yes we do but we also, and primarily, want to be well paid for the work that we do.

    When I started understanding the free-market a few years ago I experimented with a few job interviews. I found out a few things:

    When the interviewer asks why you want the job if you answer in the vein that mainstream economics says (you have a position that requires X skills and are paying money and I want a job, have X skills and will accept money) you’re guaranteed not to get the job. They’re all looking for people with a passion for the job, a desire to work for that particular company and, because of all this, willing to work for less pay. They also expect loyalty to the company.

    • rainman 2.1
      23 October 2009 at 7:52 pm

      Draco, since when was economics a viable guide for real life?

      And, right now there are neither jobs nor interviews – and if you’re “over-qualified”, fuggedaboutit. Hiring managers seem to believe that the economy is about to improve (perhaps some economists told them so), so won’t even look at anyone who’s just trying to get a job and pay the mortgage – so much for “meeting the market”… Ah well, another place where economics doesn’t work shouldn’t be too much of a surprise, right?

      Seems like it’s a problem in the US too: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-being-slightest-bit-overqualified.html

      • Draco T Bastard 2.1.1
        23 October 2009 at 10:39 pm

        It never was but we (well, NACT anyway) still seem to be planning our society with it.

  3. AH 3
    26 October 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Management culture doesn’t help put steaks on the BBQ. Although I can see ‘management’ would like to see the reason why they have such passionate people working for them is their personal contribuion to the work environment.

    I wonder how many people leave a company for the negative experiencess of the very things management perceive we’re there for?