It can’t be that employee wages haven’t kept pace, that more Americans feel financially unstable than ever, all of this while companies across every vertical have posted record breaking profits and their c-suite bringing home eye watering multi million dollar compensation packages. It must be the line managers do not understand how to manage and keep our serfs engaged!
I swear that image seems appropriate at every second headline I read these days.
As a middle manager with a hybrid staff… it could be both. I’m basically trusting my team to get their shit done without me checking over their virtual shoulders, but is that the best way? No idea. I’m just flying by the seat of my pants. My team has very high engagement levels, so I think my approach is working; but I also have a very experienced team and don’t think my approach would be successful for managing fresh-outs virtually.
yeah it could be both but I would counter that without the other things no level of management will increase employee engagement, and manager while part of the engagement formula they are not the largest and can’t be effective in this area until the other layers are met. Call it a corporate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs where managers are near the top with like ping pong and pizza parties at the top.
I sort if see it the same those that complain about how employee loyalty no longer exists but have no problems laying off half their staff before they ask the CEO to take a pay cut, or barely keep pace with inflation for their highest performers.
I work remotely for reasons. I don’t want to be engaged. I want to be left the hell alone so I can do my job and clock out for the day.
It’s hilarious that you think managers have training on anything other than sexual harassment
I like that you made it sound like they learned how to sexually harass employees, not that they got trained on how to not do it or be aware of it, lol
Naw, they get trained on doing it more covertly. Sexual harassment is a core part of company culture after all.
Usually, managers get trained on how to handle it when it’s reported. What to write down, who to tell, that kind of thing. Apparently corporations are neutral on whether you, yourself, do it
I’m not engaged because the company I’m in keeps firing everyone and I spend every day wondering if it is me or someone I rely on who is next. I also got in right as the last of the small company culture was getting strangled by big corp nonsense so I’ve basically just been adjusting from one game plan to the next every month for the last couple years, while listening to what’s left of the old guard talk about how much better everything used to be. I spend more time in meetings about all the different bureaucracies I have to engage in than I do working on anything meaningful
