If a “great employee” is subjected to bad processes, lousy managers, and/or mediocre teams.
They won’t be employees much longer. They’ll go elsewhere. The money won’t matter.
Doesn’t take into account Envy—wanting another not to have a good they possess.
I came into a job with a technical competence that was on the Job Description but that the leaders 1) didn’t themselves have and 2) they needed because they were undergoing a Migration that needed workarounds that only I could do.
The Top Dog commended me for taking a daily procedure that took 1:10 hours down to 0:22 minutes.
My lead man came over to my desk and immediately started screaming at me:
“Now, can you take it down to 15 minutes? 10 minutes?”
Recognizing the power of Envy, I always take every possible opportunity of assigning him every credit for every thing.
How does that improve productivity?
BINGO!!!!
I left the best job of my career for EXACTLY those reasons.