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The employee's responsibility

The employee's responsibility

From the course: Employee Engagement

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The employee's responsibility

- Here's a newsflash. Absence some legal mandate like EEO or OSHA laws, you are not responsible for employees. I'll say it again. You are not responsible for employees. What you are is responsible to employees. To them, not for them. If you fail to grasp this point, you'll find yourself coming home emotionally drained from work every day and your engagement is going to be affected because you'll exhaust yourself managing people. It's important to understand you can't control employees or the level of engagement, and you don't want to. In the last century, manufacturing was a major industry in the United States and most jobs included performing repetitive physical tasks. So management took the command and control approach. They told employees the exact way to do things. No deviations, no creativities. Employees were not permitted to think for themselves and they were graded on how well they followed instruction. That…

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