A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.
People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.
Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
In most cases, it's slight and often unintentional gaps in integrity that hold leaders, their employees, and their companies back. Despite their potential, these leaders harm their employees and themselves.
If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
Most executives I know are so action-oriented, or action-addicted, that time for reflection is the first casualty of their success.
Executives don't burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don't create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.