Comments on: What Employees Are Saying About Their Leaders During The Economic Crisis http://orgreadiness.com/2008/11/26/what-employees-are-saying-about-their-leaders-during-the-economic-crisis.html Perspectives on Change Leadership and Change Management Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:01:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Links for Nov 30 2008 | Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects http://orgreadiness.com/2008/11/26/what-employees-are-saying-about-their-leaders-during-the-economic-crisis.html/comment-page-1#comment-132 Links for Nov 30 2008 | Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:01:34 +0000 http://orgreadiness.com/?p=260#comment-132 [...] What Employees Are Saying About Their Leaders During The Economic Crisis by Stephen Rock on OrgReadiness.com [...] [...] What Employees Are Saying About Their Leaders During The Economic Crisis by Stephen Rock on OrgReadiness.com [...]

]]> By: Bennet Simonton http://orgreadiness.com/2008/11/26/what-employees-are-saying-about-their-leaders-during-the-economic-crisis.html/comment-page-1#comment-131 Bennet Simonton Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:12:53 +0000 http://orgreadiness.com/?p=260#comment-131 This is a case of bosses ignoring their employees, of not being willing to support them with what they need to do a better job. In this case it is answering their questions. It is not a case of not communicating, but much more than that. It is a case of not showing basic respect for employees by allowing them ample opportunities to complain, suggest and question and to respond respectfully to those. This error is very common in top-down managed companies. The solution is to shift to bottom-up and the reward for doing so is the unleashing of each employee's full potential of creativity, innovation, productivity, motivation, and commitment. This will allow the company to beat its competitors and employees to love to come to work. I know because in 30+ years of managing people, I learned that top-down creates the very problems it claims to solve while bottom-up creates managerial nirvana. Every executive can choose nirvana. To learn more read my articles. Best regards, Ben This is a case of bosses ignoring their employees, of not being willing to support them with what they need to do a better job. In this case it is answering their questions. It is not a case of not communicating, but much more than that. It is a case of not showing basic respect for employees by allowing them ample opportunities to complain, suggest and question and to respond respectfully to those. This error is very common in top-down managed companies.

The solution is to shift to bottom-up and the reward for doing so is the unleashing of each employee’s full potential of creativity, innovation, productivity, motivation, and commitment. This will allow the company to beat its competitors and employees to love to come to work.

I know because in 30+ years of managing people, I learned that top-down creates the very problems it claims to solve while bottom-up creates managerial nirvana. Every executive can choose nirvana. To learn more read my articles.

Best regards, Ben

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