From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: billy@cast.msstate.edu (Billy Chambless) Subject: Your boss sucks, mine is better (was: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/28 Message-ID: <65mrcg$fmu$1@NNTP.MsState.Edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293425458 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347C92F0.152B@mWilden.com> <65k6jg$e6b$2@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <347DEBB2.5B6A@mWilden.com> Organization: MSU - Center for Air/Sea Technology Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <347DEBB2.5B6A@mWilden.com>, Mark Wilden writes: |> Billy Chambless wrote: |> > The goals don't have to be all that opposed. Enlightened managers realise |> > that happy, fulfilled employees are much more productive. Enlightened |> > employees realise that success for the company *can* mean success for |> > them. (of course, the more enlightened management is, the more "success |> > for the company" equates to "success for the employee".) |> There has to be a balance between employee wages and owner profits. To |> at least some degree, if you increase one you must decrease the other. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ To at least some degree. But it's certainly not a simple matter of dividing a finite amount of money. |> Both want slices from the same pie. A well-run company can give employees a stake in making the pie itself bigger -- profit sharing, bounuses, stock options, yadda yadda. All this varies depending on the size and type of the ogranization, but I think the general principle is the same. And there are other rewards in addition to money -- working environment, autonomy, etc. My feeling at my job is usually that the better job I do, the more I'll get of all the things I want.