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The article lists communication costs, the bystander effect, slack aping, and the perception that the employee's efforts doesn't count. But there is one additio
by Bakary 4y ago
The article lists communication costs, the bystander effect, slack aping, and the perception that the employee's efforts doesn't count. But there is one additional crucial piece of the puzzle: the sense of being a stakeholder as opposed to a resource.
In fact the second part is somewhat ironic: the author switches to talking about employees as cattle that has to be monitored closely and culled if needed. This is of course logical in a structure whose goal is to make money, but also directly ties into the problem that author is trying to highlight, namely the lack of motivation or dedication. Even if the employee has 'knowledge about their importance to the company', that knowledge is that they are a well or not-so-well performing resource.
Why would an employee care (other than receiving their salary) about a structure that keeps an up to date document about the feasibility of laying off 10% of the workforce? And which furthermore couches that process in condescending language about roles, ideal engineers, and knowing your value?
- throwie_wayward 4y agoI consider it morally wrong for a system (this system) to expect people who essentially embody a company to not be considered to own the company. This means that such people do not own what they do (and have done). I consider that if I do something by right it belongs to me. I don't really buy into the idea that we are freely selling what we do to our employer company and that therefore the company gets to own what we did. An employee and a company are two very different kinds of entities; a market transaction should happens between comparable kinds of entities, which a company and an employee aren't. It would be as if your own organs and cells were not considered part of you and so you'd have to pay them for doing their thing...
- intrepidhero 4y agoThat's an unusual and interesting take. Can you give an example of how you'd make the system more equitable?
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago
- throwie_wayward 4y agoworker owned companies being the norm rather than the exception would be nice