Employee Engagement by Exhortation
The underlying belief of exhortation is that people simply are not giving it their all, and so management’s job is to entice and encourage people to do a better job than they previously have. The great search for ways to engage employees involves many well-intended but misguided approaches. Exhortation. Management by objectives. Tools and techniques. Check out my post and see if you agree or disagree with my logic on the topic.
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It’s classic theory X & Y isn’t it? For much of the last century we’ve been firmly in theory X territory imo. Hopefully the times they are a changing.
Funny how some things never change. Maybe, finally, the economic reality of our world will drive us to a place we should have gone to 30 years ago.
Why bother with petty things like removing obstacles or creating a pleasant work environment when exhortation can whip the people up into a such a frenzy of activity that they’re bound to get SOMETHING right? Still, words of encouragement aren’t isn’t as bad as the classic Theory X method of motivation http://www.project-management-course.info/theory-x-manager-eeek/