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Uninspired, unmotivated? You're not alone, according to a worldwide study.
Here’s the good news: Employees feel a little bit more optimistic about work this year than they did last year.
Here’s the bad news: They’re still mostly down in the dumps.
The consulting firm RogenSi has been surveying workers all over the world for the past three years about their attitudes toward work. Their findings, based on 1,200 workers worldwide, are pretty bleak.
Take worker optimism. Although it’s up a bit from last year, the report finds that just 12 percent of employees worldwide feel optimistic.
That could be because they don’t feel very inspired by their bosses. Only 14 percent said their leaders were inspirational. Very few said they felt like the bosses were creating a work environment they found motivational.
In general, people’s feelings about work seem to start with the prefix “un.”
“Workers, it appears, are still relatively uninspired by their workplaces: while they are knuckling down and getting on with the job, the payback for them, judging by their responses, has been a lack of clarity and communication in where their organisations are heading and a profound sense of feeling undervalued by their leaders, leading to a lack of respect for those above them. These are sour ingredients for a fruitful workplace.”
Ouch.
Tip of the hat to The Wall Street Journal, which first wrote about the study.
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In these times I don't care if I'm inspired at work or not as long as I can still pay the bills.
When you're feeling that your job sucks and you're underappreciated, try enlisting in the military and serving a couple of tours in a war zone. You'll feel much better about your current job.
You want optimism? Im optimistic Obummer will be out in 2012. You watch the optimism come back once hes out.
I have been out of work for almost 3 years never in my over 40 years of employment have i ever seen it this bad. I started working in the insurance industry to help pay my bill till something better may come along it's just not paying the bills. I worked in retail for the last 15 years running service station for the big oil companies like Bp, Mobil it still gets under my crawl when these companies inflate the price of gasoline for profit how much is to much if we remember when oil was over $150 a barrel we had $4 a gallon fuel when recently it's been as low as $85 but the price per gallon has only dropped by maybe 50 cents to stay around $3.25 to $3.75 per gallon. I don't know about the rest of you readers but it really stops one from putting application in person with the price of gas it cost to run to these places to put your application in, and most likely won't even get a call to interview for a job with the company you have wasted your fuel to get their. I think it's time we take back this country NOW!!! everyone have a great day!! God Bless You All!!!
Why doesn't MSNBC do some investigative reporting for a change? Report how many companies have used Stimulus related funds and tax reductions to acquire other companies or buy back stocks!
I can easily name several if they truly are that uninformed. Unfortunately mainstream reporting organizations (FOX, CNN, NYT, MSNBC, PBS) have become propaganda pushers and provide political pundits a playground. What news articles they do have are mostly rehashes from other sources or rewrites of old article.
What was the name of the ‘news magazine’ that broke the John Edwards scandal……Why I believe it was The National Enquirer…….pathetic!
Yeah, right. I once worked for a large corporation. How depressing it was to submit to shifty motivational programs. The morale was low during an economic downturn, then came the layoffs. After going through a series of depressing motivational programs (I'm not a salesman!) I felt like asking, Is anybody here interested in talking about our products?
A wise friend once told me, only you can make yourself happy. Good advice.
If you're waiting for your boss to make you feel good before you do anything, you can look forward to an unhappy career.
The American working world is being crushed by a mountain of bad management. Dilbert isn't nearly as funny as it used to be because the vast majority of bosses are actually worse than anything in cartoon-land. Meanwhile, the middle class gets squeezed and at the bottom we find many people who really are willing to work hard, but a willingness to work hard no longer gets you an income that you can build a family and a home with. And all of us who aren't rich live one major illness or accident away from financial ruin. But don't worry-- our political leaders are looking out for the upper class (a group that you can no longer join by any means other than birth).
I don't know how much more "hope"&"change" we can handle.
The trucking industry is facing a driver shortage again. I'm a 34 yr veteran driver and am busier and making more money than I ever have. This job is also the easiest and cleanest I've had. made 57000+ last year and it cant be offshored to pakistan or Mexico. Not married and my dog died so I dont need to get home much, and when I do I take vacation time (4 wks) so i get paid for that time also. The company just flew me home and back (on their dime) for Labor Day week and will do the same for my Christmas - New Years break. Find a specialized niche carrier and go for it. I have never been laid off! The ONLY time I have been unemployed was when I changed jobs. This company also has BCBS with vision, dental, 401k, and ESOP. HQ in TX live in FL, terminal in GA, work in WY, TDY in CA. Drive a truck , see the world.