Helping A Discouraged Employee
Tuesday May 8, 2007
Does someone on your team seem "down"? Has a previously energetic employee suddenly slowed down? Maybe they are discouraged. An employee who has become discouraged will not perform at the level he or she is capable of achieving. In addition, they can begin to draw others down to their level.
It is important for a manager to know how to recognize a discouraged employee and to know what to do to help them return to their former level of production. Read Helping A Discouraged Employee to find out how you can help the employee, your team, and yourself. For more on this topic, have a look at Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore as well.
I read the article on how to spot a discouraged employee. As a discouraged employee, I feel you missed an obvious reason an employee will be less motivated about his or her job.
Management policy versus management action. That is the company policy may be team building, but recognition only goes to the team leader and no recognition for the various team members who contributed a huge effort to the success of the project.
Nothing can de-motivate an individual so quickly as when company action or rewards are not shared.
To really de-motivate a person, simply have first, second and third level managers ignore or shake their heads in sympathy with the employee but do nothing to try to change the upper level managements’ decisions. Frequently employees look to the lower and middle managers to go to bat for the employee. That is, for mid-level mangers to bring employee grievances about company policy to the upper level to get the policy changed.
maybe this should be a managemetn topic article.