Archive for August 2009
Look at the photo with attendant victims and prisoners. The important “Management / Sales / Motivational ? meeting can be seen in the background – directly in front of the window. What a scene. What a good use of highly trained ( and rewarded) management skills and talents . Never mind the costs of these donut “shop” employees off the job , or of the lost sales and effects on “corporate image” by the skeleton staff manning the counters. Customer service ??
The photo on hand is of a “sales meeting” of staff of a local “donut shop” , that has already run one hour in length . On top of that the event took yet another 60 minutes of time on the clock , before final completion and summary.
In most cases , if you have not made your point within an hour – then you have lost the attention span of all involved .
The specific victims are in the far background by the light shining through the windows. It is a case basically of prisoners being held at attention by the warden of the prison.
It’s all a case of power. This manager can well envision and marvel at the great power that he wields over others, less superior than his status – the “peons”.
By the time this photo had been snapped the meeting had dragged on for at least an hour , with yet another hour of torment to go. You can observe . the real level of attention by the participants by the bored expressions of the attendants trying to appear raptly interested. Note the child in the left foreground in front of the counter. Several enterprising employees have even brought their children as props – either for sympathy or moral support. If this isn’t a proper test, in the real world, of and for management candidates that have the skills to think on their feet , on the fly and yet motivate others to do your bidding and wishes what could be? Perhaps this is the real reason for this apparent case of torture. An advanced sophisticated head office test process for evaluating and testing staff for advanced managerial as well as supervisory skill-sets and aptitudes.
Effective meetings generally run an hour. If your case has not been made and points covered within an hour time period then the whole event is a worthless washout that truthfully should never of been held . The manger “hosting” this voluntary “pep session” should of better slept in and called in sick , or better yet had mechanical car troubles on the way to “work”. All it in it can be said that this this event will only serve to depress staff morale even to a greater extent than the current state of the nation . An observer experienced in life or in the managerial models might well call this case “The Donut Shop Style of Management “ or “A Tale of Managerial Skills and Expertise at a Local Donut Joint”
The only real break, and perhaps humor, that the participants / those been immolated had , was the recess taken to question and interview the concerned photographer of said event. This is an indication of the rapt attention being given to the all powerful “manager”
The manager can be spotted in the far left of the photo, blocking the escape exit of the volunteers at his “meeting” with his back to the wall / window.
This meeting is a weekly occurrence. Rain or shine, customer lineups or not this meeting is a weekly event. It’s all supposed to” smooth out the systems” and “pump up the staff”. Only in this case, it’s all about power, of a young manager type who can hold the troops at his attention for any length of time that he desires.
By the time this photo had been snapped, the “meeting” had been in progress for at least an hour and yet proceeded another full hour before being “wrapped up”.
A sad comment on the current state of management in our nation and the career opportunities afforded to our young people at big box chain type “customer service ” operations.
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Innate Fear of Others coupled with Competitiveness
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Motivation and employee motivations. Most employees are actually fairly simple thinkers , straight shooters.
Contrast to the type of thinking of most who go into fields of management and “management sciences”. Schemers , and downright pathological social deviants. Who can they beat – everything in life is a contest. How can they get something for free almost to the point of being proud and glad if they hurt someone and injure or derail their lives.
Yet most employees , usually are looking for the benefit of their respective firms, whereas many in the management fields are the type that if they find a good deal somewhere or a good workman will go out fo their way not to share this information as deep down ( or even not to deep) , they are in competition with everyone and anyone . They might inadvertently tell a close friend ( when they are on the upswing not before ) , “Isn’t that how “we “ keep score , as if life is one big game of them against the world , and they must “beat” or “crush” everyone else.
The social deviancy is not that “We all win” , “We all do well toge tether” , its that “I must win at all costs” and tht “There can only be one winner”. If you win , then I must lose. Couple this with a pathological fear of failure and you have most bosses.
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From a managerial handbook “ You might be tempted to try to keep employees satisfied in order to maintain productivity. That is not easy . Employee satisfaction can be expensive . There is only one economical alternative to addressing the employee “satisfaction” issue. Can you locate it on this list:
First the whole exercise sounds rather sterile , even more than elitist, coupled with Nazi like understandings of an issue similar to the concept of “The Jews are Our Misfortune”.
What might this list be in terms of employee satisfaction alternatives :
1) Increase salaries ( bad for profit levels)
2) Improve working environment and environments – again not good for bottom line profit levels and more importantly it reduced the perceived value of the “perks” given to management in relation to the peons doing the work and bringing home the “bacon”
“Perks of management” have been defined and described by some as anything given to management for free that can not really be justified financially or by any other means.
Its all in relation to who has what. Not unlike men comparing the size of the penises of the hard drives on their laptop computers.
What a bunch of morons. In the end the assignment will be to conduct and employee satisfaction survey or survey and both ignore any results and information obtained while penalizing and deriding any “wrong answers”.
It all comes down to plain foolishness and downright stupidity. “I’m the boss”.
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Different Forms of Rewards – or lack of – For Bosses
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What motivates employees ?
A good question. What motivates employees at one point in their life may differ from other points in their lives.
Get a boss who is a young stud – a drinker , a womanizer , one who looks to screw any potential female ( or who knows what ) no matter that she may be a major client’s daughter or whatever and all you will get are financial rewards as the only measure of incentive. Worse yet explain , or try to explain to these types that there are alternatives , and the concept of flexibility – and this may well , or always be regarded as a threat to their management status or that you are a poor employee. “I think that you don’t like money” was the refrain barked out to a new young father who tried to escape the world’s stupidest project dreamed up while the boss was corked on a Friday afternoon.
The comedy was that the boss had been set up by the employee at a client’s office to keep him busy and out of trouble .
One of the influential clients at hand at the spectacle remarked “He sure thinks a lot of himself”
Another pointed out “Pour a couple of drinks ( many in this case , far too many) , and watch what happens.
What a bunch of morons !
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