April 23, 2010

Motivation 3.0 for 21st century workforce

Employee satisfaction is at a 20-year low, based upon a large body of statistics. The Economist magazine said in October “…the proportion of employees who professed loyalty to their employers slumped from 95 percent to 39 percent; the number voicing trust in them fell from 79 percent to 22 percent.”

The same article quoted a survey by DDI, an American consultancy, who found that more than half of respondents described their jobs as “stagnant,” meaning that they had nothing interesting to do and little hope of promotion: “People are both clinging to their current jobs, however much they dislike them,…

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