Employees Trained Animals?

Filed in archive Human Resources on November 8, 2006

Sometimes the way entrepreneurs and business owners treat their employees you would think they are running a kennel rather than a business. At "Knocking the exuberance out of employees" is a wry article that exposes the contradictions and myths that form the beliefs of abusive business owners.

My favorite is the "zombie Function" graph that exposes bad management habits like micro managing and a 16 reasons why robots are better than employees. Check this out:

If you knock out exuberance, you knock out curiosity, and curiosity is the single most important attribute in a world that requires continuous learning and unlearning just to keep up. If we knock out their exuberance, we've also killed their desire to learn, grow, adapt, innovate, and care. Via Creating Passionate Users

Perhaps you are part of the problem Mr. Business Owner?!