8 ways to ruin your employees' motivation

A new study offers great ways to 'utterly destroy an employee's work life.' Of course, you could simply take this as a cautionary tale, and avoid these tactics.
By Russell Working | Posted: December 26, 2012
Consider the boss with a North Korean-style approach to gathering office intelligence. She enlisted her staff to spy on one another, recalls Brenda Della Casa, managing editor of I Am Staggered, USA and author of " Cinderella Was a Liar ." "She'd then use the information—accurate or not—against the employee and as an excuse to go off on the employee and create a culture of fear," Della Casa says. Sure, lots of bosses work hard to motivate workers. But what read more...

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