Um dos temas deste blogue ao longo dos anos, "Organizations must stop conflating activity with achievement". Recordo as cenas com os relatórios de actividade dos organismos públicos:
- Mais um monumento à treta - parte II (Junho de 2007)
- Sem resultados pelos quais responder não há skin-in-the-game (Abril de 2021)
"“Work, not leisure, is now the signifier of dominant social status.”...Research indicates that when organizations overload employees, base their incentives primarily on the amount of time they work, and excessively monitor their activities, productivity and efficiency actually drop....One of social psychology's canonical findings is that the harder people work to achieve something, the more they value it. Known as "effort justification," this tendency arises even when a task is meaningless. And the more demanding the effort is, the more commitment people feel....a lot of organizational behavior is mindless. ... much of what managers believe to be institutional knowledge and culture is actually just bad habits....HOW TO REVERSE COURSEWhat can organizations do to beat back the scourge?I believe that five approaches can help them overcome the obsession with busyness.Reward output, not just activity. [Moi ici: Imaginem este racional a permear os fazedores de planos de combate à pobreza, à violência doméstica e a outras boas-intenções] As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. So unsurprisingly, paying people for effort can lead to more effort rather than greater productivity...."Never mistake activity for achievement." Yet companies keep falling into that trap, despite considerable evidence that increased work doesn't necessarily lead to increased productivity. Given that the prevailing corporate culture continues to reward busyness, it can be tempting to go with the flow instead of fighting to reform broken incentive structures. Yet doing so would be not only unwise but quite possibly deadly. Research shows that since the 1990s, employees increasingly have been working harder and under tighter deadlines and more stressful conditions as they try to master additional skills to outpace the robots gunning for their jobs and as digital devices trap them in a 24/7 workplace. This has taken a significant toll on mental and physical health. Businesses and leaders must step up to take a stand against the busyness epidemic so that we can begin to create not only more sustainable organizations but also more sustainable jobs."
Trechos retirados de "Beware a Culture of Busyness - Organizations must stop conflating activity with achievement" de Adam Waytz.
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