"The anxiety over a possible war and more terrorist attacks, not to mention decreased job security, has sunk employee morale," says Mr. Challenger (who admits that his staff has held these pools "in the past").
Maybe the Master's words were meant to motivate, but instead they seem to have sunk his employees into a darker funk.
Last week I wrote that Facebook needd to make a significant act of contrition and humility if it wanted stabilize the sinking morale of its employees.
I handed the high-tech glasses back to a Google employee, with the sinking feeling that it could be a while before I'd be that close to them again.
Since then, morale among ICE employees has been sinking, he said, with Homeland Security ranking 279 out of 292 federal agencies in an annual federal government survey last year.
The number of available workers has grown, but as employees jump off sinking ships or swim away from ones already capsized, they are being much more selective about where they dock next.
[C5.] Dot-Com Recruiting Woes: Part 2 For dot-com companies, the number of available workers has grown, but as employees jump off sinking ships or swim away from ones already capsized, they are being much more selective about where they dock next.
Rather than letting employees sink or swim on their own, Beta companies create support networks that help connect and propel each employee's performance.
Those investments then turn into "sunk costs" and employees become more committed to the organization (Meyer & Allan, 1984; Wallace, 1997).
