Employee Engagement: ZENgagement
Do you have freedom within the rules and regulations of work?
To preserve a sense of freedom even in the midst of rules and regulations is to preserve a part of our identities free from the strictures and responsibilities of success, career, and corporation. The measure or our continuing individuality in any work is the refusal to be swallowed by our goals, our ambitions, or our company no matter how marvelous they may be. ~ David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea.
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– Randy Nichols.
David,
This is very important. We always say that when making an assignment, the manager should assign the “what” along with the boundaries and resources, but the employee decides the “how”.
The scope and complexity of the how will vary by work level, but there is always a how element in human work.
Work is about making judgments. If it can be without making a judgment (how), then a robot or computer could do it.
When a manager tinkers in the how arena, it crosses over into micromanagement and steals the employees’ psychological payback that humans get from doing work. This, of course, shoots engagement in the foot.
Regards,
Michelle
Randy:
I am glad you liked it and I thought your blog was very practical and helpful.
Michelle:
Hopefully we won’t lose too many feat!
David