Comments on: Why “Making People Feel Good” at Work isn’t the Answer http://www.reimaginework.com/why-making-people-feel-good-at-work-isnt-the-answer/ Mary Schaefer - Specializing in Creating Manager-Employee Communication Breakthroughs and Functional, Positive Work Cultures Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary http://www.reimaginework.com/why-making-people-feel-good-at-work-isnt-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Mary Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:12:06 +0000 http://www.reimaginework.com/wordpress/?p=283#comment-14 Thanks Bart. Indeed we have become "lumpy." I like that. :-) Thanks Bart. Indeed we have become “lumpy.” I like that. :-)

]]> By: Bart Gragg | Blue Collar University http://www.reimaginework.com/why-making-people-feel-good-at-work-isnt-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Bart Gragg | Blue Collar University Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:59:11 +0000 http://www.reimaginework.com/wordpress/?p=283#comment-13 Mary; Along these lines I also sense that since the law says we have to treat everyone equally managers and others use that as an excuse to not treat people as individuals. That is not the laws intent. The law's intent is to have us respect each other regardless our origins and upbringing. In order to respect each other we must treat each other as individual humans. One of the problems with that is the trend to using spreadsheets as "law" and technology to communicate in sterile terms. Mass communications and spreadsheets lump us altogether. We have become 'lumpy.' Bart Mary;
Along these lines I also sense that since the law says we have to treat everyone equally managers and others use that as an excuse to not treat people as individuals. That is not the laws intent. The law’s intent is to have us respect each other regardless our origins and upbringing. In order to respect each other we must treat each other as individual humans.

One of the problems with that is the trend to using spreadsheets as “law” and technology to communicate in sterile terms. Mass communications and spreadsheets lump us altogether. We have become ‘lumpy.’

Bart

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