Should be retitled "Things Bosses wish their employees believed about them".
I'm glad to work at a place where these issues are moot, but the typical company seems to operate under the mantra: "The floggings will continue until morale improves". Oddly, morale never improves.
I have a feeling that if bosses acted in a way that made them like them that the rest of the issues would go away.
Government had to instill the productivity benefits of 40 hour work weeks in law before companies would believe it. Most their businesses are failing because of their own policies and refusal to adopt new methods that would solve their problems, instead they keep doing the same thing, and getting the same result. (And then blame their employees for that result)
No, the government didn't have to force the 40 hour work week, as business, in particular, Henry Ford, found the benefits through studies he conducted at his factories. He found that productivity dropped after 40 hours of work per week, 8 hour per day.
Henry Ford also found that his labor expenses dropped (specifically, training costs) when he raised the typical wages to twice the industry average (to a whole $5/day!). He paid his employees twice the going rate, and worked them half as hard in order to make more profit. The greedy bastard!
A single instance doesn't demonstrate an industry trend. At the time the US made those labor laws what was the trend in the industry?
If anything, this demonstrates the stubbornness of many businesses. Despite seeing ample evidence of success by a peer they tend to ignore it and continue the old ways.
True that a single instance doesn't demonstrate an industry trend, much less a trend in general. However, Henry Ford did have thousands of employees, and does provide some indication to human motivation. However, that was in the early 1900s in the US. Human motivational factors in the early 2000s may be quite that different.
I seem to remember 40 hrs was a compromise - a 4-day work week was proposed, and job-sharing was proposed. President compromised on a federal standard 40-hr work week.
I'm glad to work at a place where these issues are moot, but the typical company seems to operate under the mantra: "The floggings will continue until morale improves". Oddly, morale never improves.
I have a feeling that if bosses acted in a way that made them like them that the rest of the issues would go away.
Government had to instill the productivity benefits of 40 hour work weeks in law before companies would believe it. Most their businesses are failing because of their own policies and refusal to adopt new methods that would solve their problems, instead they keep doing the same thing, and getting the same result. (And then blame their employees for that result)