Rod at work (9/5/2013)
Interesting article, Steve. I take issue with one of your statements. You said, "Employees that dislike each other can bring down overall quality and coordination very quickly. The sooner managers learn that, and learn to respect employees while challenging them, the sooner their departments will start to shine." I've situations in which I think the manager was a part of the problem, and never saw the dislike between their employees or the manager actively encouraged it. In such situations morale suffered, but everyone just kept soldiering on.
Agreed Ron, I worked for a manager years ago at KSC (Kennedy Space Center) that actually stirred up stuff all the time in his department. He was a terrible manager that was more concerned about chasing SKIRT than taking care of his deparmtent. He finally got several HR complaints lodged aginst him and was eventually removed from the position. I heard later that he died of a massive heart attack. What goes around comes around sooner or later.:-D
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