To what extent do you think your supervisor(s) and management want you to be happy and inspired at work? Managers and Supervisors: To what extent do you want your employees to be happy and inspired at work?
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April 13th, 2016
To what extent do you think your job (management and supervisors) wants you to be happy and inspired at work? Do you think they care about your happiness and satisfaction with work?
Do you think your job wants you to be inspired to do a good job, or do you think they don’t care how happy you are? Do you think they care about your satisfaction or do they just want the job to get done?
Management and people who supervise others: To what extent do you care that your employees are happy? To what extent do you want your employees to feel inspired at work?
I ask this because I work for an organization that represents employees (members of the organization) and someone told me yesterday that his boss does not inspire him. I think it’s a common complaint but one not voiced by many. I am not sure how many bosses at the place where I work actually care about people being happy.
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Not at all.
We were taken over a year and a half ago. When the appointed President of our subsidiary came to meet us in a “town hall” meeting, he told us “we don’t care about you being happy or having fun at work. We are here to work.”
No one here cares too deeply about workers’ “job satisfaction”, and we don’t bring it up. HOWEVER, no one wants us to feel like a galley slave, either, and when people express particular DISsatisfaction with conditions or job duties, then that is considered, however it can be.
We’re not here to have fun or to make friends, but conversely no one wants to work with a grouch, either.
I am very lucky in this regard. I benefit from the supply/demand ratio in my field (software engineering). Managers know that if their employees aren’t happy, they can easily go somewhere else where they will be. Also, programmers program better when they don’t hate their lives. As a result, we’re spoiled. Management goes to great lengths to keep us happy.
I buy it. We get snacks and it’s awesome.
^ Yeah. My students get drinks and cookies, and they do usually come happily.
Generally, yes I do think they want me to be happy. Well I suppose they more or less have to. We have great workers rights in Ireland, thanks to the Equality in the Workforce Act. In this act there are a wide range of protected groups, that can file a claim of discrimination in the workplace if they are treated unfairly based on their group.
Many companies in Ireland are unionised, and even the ones that are not you can still have a strong case if you are discriminated. Many retail companies have confidential hotlines. For those of you who are unfarmiliar with this, its basically a means for you to report your general manager for misconduct. Irish and UK retail companies put a strong focus on confidential lines to report company theft from more senior managers. But actually, is for reporting any inappropriate behaviour (including but not limited to, bullying, unfair treatment, unprofessional attitude or dishonesty that may affect the running of the company or store).
So its a general managers best interest to make all employees happy, or there could be consequences.
My experience as an employee over many years is that my managers probably cared more about my doing the work they wanted done than my happiness. If they had any interest in my happiness at all it was only to the extent of how it made them look to their manager.
As a manager I liked to think I cared about my staff’s feelings but if I’m really honest I have to admit I felt the same way as my own manager.
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