Greetings, organ-learners. It's been a while since I've contributed
anything of merit to the list but I HAVE been out there lurking. I trust
that all goes well.
[Host's Note: Scott, always good to hear from you! ..Rick]
As I was reading recent posts, they reminded me of my search for
statistics about human performance related to organizational cultures and
those sorts of things.
"Nobody Ever Washes a Rental Car," is the basic framework for some
thinking about people and organizations. And while I have seen many
articles and authors refer to "lots of statistics" that support the need
or the correlation between treatment of people and productivity, my direct
requests to those folks have been met with the comment that "there ARE
lots of statistics" but no one seems to have any.
(A whole bunch of one liners come to mind:
"That restaurant is so popular. Nobody goes there anymore." (Yogi Berra)
and
"Don't pay attention to the critics. Don't even ignore them."
(Samuel Goldwyn)
I do have some stats and will be more than happy to share them. Things like:
25% of workers said they were capable of doing 56% more work.
Why don't they?
33% mentioned one or several of the following reasons:
- Not being involved in decision making
- Lack of reward for good performance
- No opportunity for advancement.
- Lack of quality supervision
- Inadequate Training
Compensation and Benefits Review, American Management Association, 1997
And in thinking of the LO List, I thought, "What other group of people on
the Net are as bright, informed, sharing, inquisitive, wonderful..."
Well, you get my drift. ...grin...
Any thoughts would be "most excellent." And I wish you well,
--For the FUN of It!
Scott Simmerman - "The Square Wheels Guy" Performance Management Company - 800-659-1466 <mailto:Scott@SquareWheels.com>
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