Comments on: How to Motivate Employees After Layoffs http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785 "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:43:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joan http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785&cpage=1#comment-43171 Joan Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:36:54 +0000 http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785#comment-43171 Morgan -- Wow! I don't think I've ever read a more negative viewpoint of the business world. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, though. Morgan—Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever read a more negative viewpoint of the business world. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, though.

]]> By: Morgan http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785&cpage=1#comment-43150 Morgan Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:52:52 +0000 http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785#comment-43150 I'm sorry but the same lack of leadership that lead to the layoffs will quickly return following the layoffs in the form of little or no patience for the remaining staff. After a very brief period of time, usually immediately, management will want to distance themselves from the bloodshed and will not want to hear about the staff's adjustment issues. In point of fact it has been my experience that management feels even more emboldened and will treat the staff even worse because now they have tasted the real power that management has over an employee’s life! The attitude of “if you don’t like it then leave” will permeate the organization. Those that know how to stay off the radar will sink into whatever oblivion they use to survive, waiting for their opportunity to strike back at those in power who made them feel powerless. The more forthright will become vocal about the inequity of the situation and be labeled as malcontents, at which point their only alternative is to leave. So, in a company that has undergone Work Force Reductions you are left with 1)The poor leadership that got the organization there in the first place. 2)Those who have been let go 3)Those who go into hiding and become worthless 4)Those who speak out against it and become worthless because they will be ignored passed over, etc. 5)Those who might have been previously willing to work for the company but now won’t come in 100 miles of it. So proselytize all you wish about how to repair the damage, but history has demonstrated that only a wholesale slaughter of those performing the layoffs is the only true remedy. I’m sorry but the same lack of leadership that lead to the layoffs will quickly return following the layoffs in the form of little or no patience for the remaining staff. After a very brief period of time, usually immediately, management will want to distance themselves from the bloodshed and will not want to hear about the staff’s adjustment issues. In point of fact it has been my experience that management feels even more emboldened and will treat the staff even worse because now they have tasted the real power that management has over an employee’s life! The attitude of “if you don’t like it then leave” will permeate the organization. Those that know how to stay off the radar will sink into whatever oblivion they use to survive, waiting for their opportunity to strike back at those in power who made them feel powerless. The more forthright will become vocal about the inequity of the situation and be labeled as malcontents, at which point their only alternative is to leave.

So, in a company that has undergone Work Force Reductions you are left with
1)The poor leadership that got the organization there in the first place.
2)Those who have been let go
3)Those who go into hiding and become worthless
4)Those who speak out against it and become worthless because they will be ignored passed over, etc.
5)Those who might have been previously willing to work for the company but now won’t come in 100 miles of it.

So proselytize all you wish about how to repair the damage, but history has demonstrated that only a wholesale slaughter of those performing the layoffs is the only true remedy.

]]> By: HR Carnival of Global Giving is now open! http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785&cpage=1#comment-42765 HR Carnival of Global Giving is now open! Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:12:54 +0000 http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785#comment-42765 [...] Schramm offers her take on How to Motivate Employees After Layoffs.  Her charity is the Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League (www.magdrl.org).  They are also on [...] [...] Schramm offers her take on How to Motivate Employees After Layoffs.  Her charity is the Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League (www.magdrl.org).  They are also on [...]

]]> By: Allen Taylor http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785&cpage=1#comment-42764 Allen Taylor Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:46:19 +0000 http://blog.achieve-momentum.com/?p=785#comment-42764 Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road. Allen Taylor Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.

Allen Taylor

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