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November 19, 2002

Employee empowerment?

This is supposed to be one of the goals of my company. It probably is one of the goals of your company too.

But does anybody out there really feel empowered?

To me, it seems that empowerment should include the ability to raise complaints. But I find that:

1) If I complain to my manager, nothing happens
2) If I complain to the department that is screwing up, they ignore it
3) If I complain publically, I am reprimanded in some way, or it is just plain ignored, too.

Rather than feeling empowered, I think I feel emasculated (at work, that is).

Posted by markj at November 19, 2002 03:31 PM

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The corporate Catch-22: 1. Institute a program that encourages employee participation. 2. Reprimand the first employee to make use of the program for saying or doing something other than promoting official corporate rhetoric, thus striking fear into all other employees. 3. Cancel the program citing lack of participation. 4. Throw this back into the faces of the employees for years to come: "We had a program like that but YOU PEOPLE didn't use it". Then they wonder why so many people stand outside smoking, or head straight from the office to the nearest bar.

Posted by: lactose incompetent at November 19, 2002 08:28 PM

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