Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked
by rightbyte on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:20PM
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Sociopaths? The groups should be audience, losers, contenders and winners.
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Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked
by wanderer2323 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:27PM
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GP is talking about the Gervais Principle analysis https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked
by rightbyte on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:49PM
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Oh, interesting, but quite simplified and dogmatic principle. Anyways confusing labels for the groups. The group labels should rather be e.g. A,B and C since the labels don't really corresponds the their literal meaning.
Re:Employee happiness and business success are linked
by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:30AM
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The labelling isn't confusing at all. Not only do top-level managers cluster around sociopathy, but corporate structures specifically reward selfish sociopathic behaviours and punish empathy and context-awareness.
You have to be a certain kind of person to cut staff - some dedicated and valuably skilled - in order to boost the short-term return on your stocks. Likewise, you have to be a certain kind of person to think of customers as a resource that can be farmed and exploited with dark patterns and other manipulations. And in more extreme cases - you have to be a certain kind of person to make non-payment of contractors a deliberate policy.
People who score high on empathy won't be comfortable with those kinds of actions.