Good company culture leads to success. Bad culture leads to eventual failure or at least under-performing your industry.
Any company that approves of this sort of surveillance is clearly displaying an out of control terrible culture. This is probably a few terrible managers who are feeling left out in the cold and exposing how they are not actual contributes to success who are pushing for this sort of BS. The upper management is not displaying any leadership skills by curtailing such out of control behavio
Good company culture leads to success. Bad culture leads to eventual failure or at least under-performing your industry.
Any company that approves of this sort of surveillance is clearly displaying an out of control terrible culture. This is probably a few terrible managers who are feeling left out in the cold and exposing how they are not actual contributes to success who are pushing for this sort of BS. The upper management is not displaying any leadership skills by curtailing such out of control behaviour. Even worse if they are the ones encouraging it.
I both hate and love companies like this. I hate them because they are making people miserable. I love them because hiring their best miserable people is super easy. You don't have to offer them more money, a better location, or anything like that. You just tell them. "I will stop punching you in the face every day." and you have a winning offer.
There is no such thing as "company culture" or "company values". Companies are being established to make money for the share holders, nothing more and nothing less. There are corporate policies which may or may not be conducive to business. Anthropomorphism has gone too far when it comes to corporations. Companies are not bound by morality, companies don't have a culture. The only thing that companies are supposed to do is to make money.
There is no such thing as "company culture" or "company values". Companies are being established to make money for the share holders, nothing more and nothing less. There are corporate policies which may or may not be conducive to business. Anthropomorphism has gone too far when it comes to corporations. Companies are not bound by morality, companies don't have a culture. The only thing that companies are supposed to do is to make money.
If only it was so black and white that "good company culture" and "make money" are orthogonal to each other and one has no relation to the other. I suppose that's what MBA class teaches nowadays - that people are simple mindless automatons that can be plugged in and out like a lightbulb.
Employment is a give and take - employees give time to make money. Employees will put in as much work as they feel they are wroth. A healthy corporate culture where managers enable their underlings to get work done and help solve problems, is generally a more profitable workplace because people who feel valued actually do work harder.
Likewise, people who have to be whipped into working either are deadweight and you have to keep whipping them for work to get done because they have nowhere else to go, or are looking for elsewhere to go. Either way, they're not putting full effort into the work and just doing the minimum necessary.
On the flip side, people talk. If you have a job opening and you're known as a company that exploits people, you won't attract the best talent - the best talent know they can do better, and they look for other opportunities. You'd just get the desperate talent, the ones who are doing it just to get a paycheque.
The science is there. Making money isn't easy and humans are one of the worst things about running a company because they're complex machines that cannot be simply treated as "money in, work out".
The real problem is a "good corporate culture" is a very vague thing to do. It's not "fancy meal options" or "play rooms" or "ping pong table" and it almost certainly can't be bought with money. It encompasses a whole range of things from pay and benefits to working conditions and supports and many other parts.
It's also about how do you accommodate different people. Some people feel work is "money in, work out" and that's it. Others may wish for more support or community - perhaps someone is having a birthday and they'd like a few people over to celebrate. It takes a good manager to be able to handle both properly.
Well, there is no such thing as "company culture". There are good managers, which create conditions conducive to making money and there are bad managers, usually embodied in Dilbert's boss, lovingly known as "PHB". Employer buys time and work from its employees. Employee value the money more than they value the time and work they put in. The prices are usually being regulated by the market, unless the government doesn't try to intervene, usually with disastrous consequences.
Corporations are hierarchical or
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Good company culture leads to success. Bad culture (Score:5, Interesting)
Any company that approves of this sort of surveillance is clearly displaying an out of control terrible culture. This is probably a few terrible managers who are feeling left out in the cold and exposing how they are not actual contributes to success who are pushing for this sort of BS. The upper management is not displaying any leadership skills by curtailing such out of control behavio
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Good company culture leads to success. Bad culture leads to eventual failure or at least under-performing your industry. Any company that approves of this sort of surveillance is clearly displaying an out of control terrible culture. This is probably a few terrible managers who are feeling left out in the cold and exposing how they are not actual contributes to success who are pushing for this sort of BS. The upper management is not displaying any leadership skills by curtailing such out of control behaviour. Even worse if they are the ones encouraging it. I both hate and love companies like this. I hate them because they are making people miserable. I love them because hiring their best miserable people is super easy. You don't have to offer them more money, a better location, or anything like that. You just tell them. "I will stop punching you in the face every day." and you have a winning offer.
There is no such thing as "company culture" or "company values". Companies are being established to make money for the share holders, nothing more and nothing less. There are corporate policies which may or may not be conducive to business. Anthropomorphism has gone too far when it comes to corporations. Companies are not bound by morality, companies don't have a culture. The only thing that companies are supposed to do is to make money.
Re:Good company culture leads to success. Bad cult (Score:4, Interesting)
If only it was so black and white that "good company culture" and "make money" are orthogonal to each other and one has no relation to the other. I suppose that's what MBA class teaches nowadays - that people are simple mindless automatons that can be plugged in and out like a lightbulb.
Employment is a give and take - employees give time to make money. Employees will put in as much work as they feel they are wroth. A healthy corporate culture where managers enable their underlings to get work done and help solve problems, is generally a more profitable workplace because people who feel valued actually do work harder.
Likewise, people who have to be whipped into working either are deadweight and you have to keep whipping them for work to get done because they have nowhere else to go, or are looking for elsewhere to go. Either way, they're not putting full effort into the work and just doing the minimum necessary.
On the flip side, people talk. If you have a job opening and you're known as a company that exploits people, you won't attract the best talent - the best talent know they can do better, and they look for other opportunities. You'd just get the desperate talent, the ones who are doing it just to get a paycheque.
The science is there. Making money isn't easy and humans are one of the worst things about running a company because they're complex machines that cannot be simply treated as "money in, work out".
The real problem is a "good corporate culture" is a very vague thing to do. It's not "fancy meal options" or "play rooms" or "ping pong table" and it almost certainly can't be bought with money. It encompasses a whole range of things from pay and benefits to working conditions and supports and many other parts.
It's also about how do you accommodate different people. Some people feel work is "money in, work out" and that's it. Others may wish for more support or community - perhaps someone is having a birthday and they'd like a few people over to celebrate. It takes a good manager to be able to handle both properly.
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