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The late management consultant Peter Drucker (who, as a winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was no foe of capitalism) recommended that a CEO-to-worker pay ratio should never top 25; otherwise, he argued, they would "increase employee resentment and decrease morale".
The negative effects predicted by [DADT] supporters -- mass resignations, declines in recruiting, degraded unit cohesion, impaired military effectiveness, decrease morale and disciplinary problems -- have yet to materialize.
In addition to Polish titles, Armia Krajowa also printed false German newspapers designed to decrease morale of the occupying German forces (as part of Action N).
A nosy boss can decrease morale and make employees feel nervous.
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Borcherding and Samelson ([1980]) found that rework was one of the three most significant drivers to poor productivity and decreased morale , oftentimes as a result of poor engineering information design.
Steadily decreasing morale and discontent with rations provoked a series of small mutinies in the fleet.
We hoped that, using the FG process, we could understand residents' dissatisfaction and decreased morale in a way that would point us in the direction of programmatic improvement.
There is very limited research exploring stigma associated with CF. Pizzignacco and colleagues hypothesize that in CF patients, stigma could be associated with decreased social contact, impaired relationships, and worsening of disease related to decreased morale and this could lead to a deterioration in lung function, weight and physical function [ 14].
At the organizational level, if workplace violence occurs, negative outcomes may include: high staff turnover and difficulty with nurse retention [ 13, 14], decreased morale , hostile work environments [ 12], nurse absenteeism, more frequent medical errors, more workplace injury claims [ 15, 16], greater costs due to disability leaves, and reduced quality of patient care [ 6, 12].
Finally, high levels of turnover in institutions are known to have a negative impact on the working conditions of remaining staff, by increasing workloads, disrupting team cohesion and decreasing morale , thus creating a "vicious cycle" of turnover that is fuelling the crisis of human resources in health [ 21, 22].
Moreover, high turnover rates have great implications not only for the quality, consistency and stability of services provided to people in need, but also for the working conditions of the remaining staff, e.g. increased workloads, disrupted team cohesion and decreased morale [ 6, 7].
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The phrase "decrease morale " functions as a verb phrase where 'decrease' acts as a verb indicating the action of reducing something, and 'morale' is the noun representing the level of enthusiasm and motivation. As confirmed by Ludwig, the phrase is correct and usable in English.
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