It’s a somewhat new concept that sort of combined happiness and work effort. Active engagement goes above and beyond, engaged employees are generally positive, disengaged employees are slightly negative, and actively disengaged employees are like cancer.
It’s a nebulous concept that boils down to good employees are good, but gets management consultants paid.
Naw, basically saying that the employment landscape has changed significantly since 2020 and the management class reports being overwhelmed and lacking tools/knowledge/experience to properly manage and engage employees in the new landscape, while the employees report more passive disengagement and want a company to actually invest in them as a person and treat them as a human instead of treating them like naked capital investment.
Edit: I forgot, there was that one brazenly monocle’d paragraph advocating for harder boot licking for workers, but it is cnbc so what do you expect
As a former asshole designing, implementing, and running those surveys in various capacities, the company only runs these to dishonestly interpret the results as they please. Noone will be surprised to learn your employer almost certainly doesn’t care about what you think - only the returns you deliver. It’s for their benefit - not ours.
Mind you, it could be worse - I remember speaking to an exec at a major bank that told me words to the effect of “I know we have a morale problem - a big fucking morale problem - but if I measure it, I’ll have to actually do something about it.”
Yep, the only result I’ve ever seen from these engagement surveys are things NOBODY would ever have requested, but management insists was demanded in the survey. Things like returning to the bullshit yearly self-reviews.
I’m just here to provide as as little value as possible without being fired, while my employer tries to exploit as much value out of me as they can without me walking out.
The laborers didn’t set these rigged, antagonistic terms, but failing to game them as a laborer just makes you a fool. Almost no employer is earnest with their employees, and that lack of respect should go both ways.
The market capitalists are more than welcome to restructure their orphan crushing economy into one that rewards the labor that makes their capital over do nothing shareholders demanding mooooaaaaar for nothing, simply because they present chips from their last exploitation casino outing, but we all know they’d rather civilization collapses, because the peasants having enough to do more than subsist would make them feel less wealthy by comparison, and would make their fragile egos cry.
Minimal pay = minimal effort. I don’t need a manager to coach me. What I need is more money so I feel valued instead of some disposable equipment. I need to not be actively screwed over by other coworkers. There’s a lot that can be done to increase moral and more management is not it. Most people are happy with work if it’s not a hostile environment because surprise, it feels good to have done a good job.
Exactly. A good manager is one who shields you from upper management bullshit and lets you do your thing, your way, so long as you contribute your part to the team.
