Re: Effectiveness in the Workplace

"Natalie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> How does your genuineness in the workplace affect your effectiveness
> and worker productivity (or that of your employees)?  I need responses
> in order to substantiate my argument that genuineness does affect
> worker productivity. Any response is helpful- thank you!
>

Getting the job done requires that one has the skills, the resources and the
desire to complete the task. Lets say that somebody has the skills and the
resources to complete a task. How does desire fit into the picture? (Can I
swap the words 'desire' and genuineness' so long as when I say desire, I
mean genuine desire?)

Lets look at an extreme example. Say that this guy's boss is an evil
taskmaster with a whip. If this worker doesn't get his job done, he's gonna
get whipped. Unless this worker person is some sort of sado-masochist, he's
going to have a genuine desire to get the job done, because his getting the
work done is less painful than completing the work.

Turn things around. Lets say that there is this person has less pain, and/or
more pleasure, in not completing whatever task it is that he is supposed to
accomplish. Is this person going to complete his work? Of course not.

It is human nature to seek pleasure and avoid pain. The reason people do
things they shouldn't, and the reason people don't do the things they
should, is because the pain/pleasure thing is mixed up in their mind. And
I'm a good example of that! I smoked cigarettes for thirty years! Finally, I
quit. Want to know why? Because I was sick. Terribly sick. Thank G-D it
wasn't cancer or something like that. But it wasn't until I the suffering I
was experiencing as a smoker overcame the perceived pleasure I got from
smoking.

Mike