Does your leadership inspire you? Do they lead by example, or dictate, and induce fear?
When I lead my men in the military, I never asked them, even once, to do something they had not already seen me do myself. For if I could not run 3 miles in under 12 minutes why in the world should I require them to do so, unless there was a reward for the extra efforts. And back when I was running in the military the 4 minute mile had not been broken yet.
So here I am wondering why our world; the working world is turning upside down, and failing miserably?
Some questions, and ideas that have occurred to me:
Have you ever had a Co-worker that is constantly talking to management
about all the things they do, every single second of the day, and most of the time it is things that others have done, or things that others have helped do.
Then management when it comes to evaluations, or examples, always brings up the one who was in their ear all the time, and never the ones who actually do the work.
I really could care less except one itsy, bitsy, tiny little fact; why does management not see more than they listen; they should see who is really a valued asset, rather than the one who seems to know when management is around and then decides to work to show everyone else as lazy?
Another interesting thing is, or can be compared to our present govt. system; Rather than leave something that is working alone; no, someone has to change it in order to make it their own, and without fail the thing that was actually working now never works properly again!
Retail is going down the drain due to constant changes, just so some management can make it their idea, and for what? A pat on the back? Wow!
I like the idea of what production plants and facilities do; 1st and far most if they are a 24 hour a day work facility; they pay incentives to work the shifts no one wants to work, such as; 1st shift hourly pay; 2nd shift hourly pay plus, 2 to 5 % shift bonus; 3rd shift hourly pay plus shift bonus, and perhaps even 8 hrs. pay for 7 hrs, time worked. (the idea is to tie the shift bonus to the shift, and not to the person, that way when they change shifts the bonus goes away) Then to get people to work harder, and No, it will not work for all people; but without this incentive no one will work hard for long, a guarantee! But, since it is hard to give a piece work incentive in an industry such as retail; then perhaps the usage of machines to justify retail product productivity from truck to sale, which encompasses a lot of manipulations. But, in a production plant where one is rewarded, incentives, for more production there is a catch, if one's quality drops then they lose those incentives; and the same can be done in retail when a machine's use in used as the judge of quality, by qualitative checking of a person's use of their equipment to do a better job, for the customer.
But, a basic fact of life; if management will not take quality as their 1st requirement neither will anyone below them, not now, not ever, a fact of human nature, and old fashioned laziness!
Oh, and the worst idea of all, right from the mouth of many I have seen in management:
The laziest person you have will find the quickest way to do any job!
Yeah! Always the wrong way, and it takes 3 times as many people to straighten it back out, afterwards!
I find it amazing at the newer online companies like Compumatrix which notices, and pays people for the amount of quality work that they do, and I have also noticed many of the online companies are already starting to have major failures due to workers that have found short cuts, and ways of cheating the system; which just shows laziness should never be accepted, and actually condemned, and gotten rid of!
