John Wanous
John Wanous
logical paid
That's logical because there is no connection, ... They're paid by the hour, not by performance. It's a (union-) negotiated wage.
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I'd be the kind of person walking in and sitting around with a bunch of executives and handing each one a mirror and saying, 'All right, look in the mirror -- that's the problem.'
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We found that personality traits did little in explaining which employees were highly cynical and which employees were not.
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The most cynical people in the salaried group were also unmotivated because they saw less of a connection between doing a good job and getting more money, ... The cynicism that we studied, which was all about organizational change and inertia vs. progress, spilled over into their beliefs in doing a good job and being rewarded for it. They're cynical in one area, and it poisoned their perceptions in another area.