How to lower performance

Wonder why your organization is not performing up to the mark? Feeling exhausted from work? You may have become a subject of an 'organizational malpractice'. This is according to Daniel Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence. Here is an edited excerpt from one of the chapters in the book:

There are 6 ways in which organizations or companies demoralize and demotivate employees, or so says Daniel Goleman:

• Work overload - Too much work to dor, with too little time and support.
• Lack of autonomy - Being accountable for work but having little say in how to go about it. Micromanagement by superior.
• Skimpy rewards - Getting too little pay for more work.
• Loss of connection - Increasing isolation on the job. Lack the 'human glue' that makes team excel.
• Unfairness - Inequities in how people are treated.
• Value conflicts - A mismatch between a person's principles and the demands of their job.

The net result of these organizational malpractices is to breed chronic exhaustion, cynicism, and a loss of motivation, enthusiasm and productivity.