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""It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t." But it is your job to figure out why you got unmotivated people. * Is

""It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t." But it is your job to figure out why you got unmotivated people. * Is your hiring process borked? * Is there something wrong inside your organisation that's regularly breaking motivated people? … and so on …

dynamicdispatch 11y ago
Hear, hear. Terrible management and/or micromanagement is one of the key reasons a dev can lose motivation. It also doesn't do anyone's morale/motivation any favors to see colleagues get fired. If a manager has had to fire people, and do so repeatedly, then the fault is not so much with those getting fired than the organization/management/hiring process. One of the key reasons why I've seen dev lose motivation after joining a company is lack of investment on the part of the manager in the employees future goals. I've been in situations during my entry-level days when my manager always made me draw the short straw - did wonders for my motivation.
aaggarwal 11y ago
Exactly, I have seen this at a few companies where the management isn't clear about the responsibilities with the candidate at the time of hiring, only to find out later that the candidate and company has different priorities. I will also add that this is the job of the company to find out the whether the candidate is right fit and not the candidate. The hiring company should be completely transparent about the job responsibilities and work. Also some management people have completely unrealistic expectations from a hire whose job they hardly understand and with whom they never really talked openly.
lizavp 11y ago
And what is this person's definition of unmotivated? Is only doing the work and not beyond what stated in your contract unmotivated? Is having a life outside of work considered unmotivated?

dynamicdispatch 11y ago

Hear, hear. Terrible management and/or micromanagement is one of the key reasons a dev can lose motivation. It also doesn't do anyone's morale/motivation any favors to see colleagues get fired. If a manager has had to fire people, and do so repeatedly, then the fault is not so much with those getting fired than the organization/management/hiring process. One of the key reasons why I've seen dev lose motivation after joining a company is lack of investment on the part of the manager in the employees future goals. I've been in situations during my entry-level days when my manager always made me draw the short straw - did wonders for my motivation.

aaggarwal 11y ago

Exactly, I have seen this at a few companies where the management isn't clear about the responsibilities with the candidate at the time of hiring, only to find out later that the candidate and company has different priorities. I will also add that this is the job of the company to find out the whether the candidate is right fit and not the candidate. The hiring company should be completely transparent about the job responsibilities and work. Also some management people have completely unrealistic expectations from a hire whose job they hardly understand and with whom they never really talked openly.

lizavp 11y ago

And what is this person's definition of unmotivated? Is only doing the work and not beyond what stated in your contract unmotivated? Is having a life outside of work considered unmotivated?