CORPORATE MYTHS

1. All that most workers care about is their pay and benefits

2. People will never be happy with their pay

3. When employees complain about their pay, they are

really unhappy with something else.

4. Companies that have no hesitation laying off surplus

workers do better than companies that go to great lengths
to keep their workers employed

5. Most people doing routine work hate it

6. Most people dislike work of any kind

7. Most people don’t care whether they do a quality job

8. Professionals are much more concerned about doing a

quality job than are nonprofessionals

9. If they are not supervised closely, most workers will try to

get away with whatever they can

10. Most workers dislike their immediate managers

11. It is the immediate manager that is the cause of most

employee morale problems

12. No matter how nicely a manager does it, correcting an

employee’s performance will be resented by the employee

13. People who have too much to do are more unhappy than
people who have too little to do
14. There are major differences between generations in
what people want from their jobs

15. Young people today resent authority much more than

young people did two or three decades ago

16. Young people today are much less concerned with job
security than were previous generations

17. There are major differences between cultures and

countries in what people want from their jobs

18. Companies that are loyal to their employees are less

successful as businesses

19. Traditional organization principles -- such as the need

for hierarchy -- are stifling and outmoded in today’s "new
economy"

20. Whether a company is ethical and a good corporate

citizen is of little concern to most of its employees

21. Most employees resist change, whatever the change is

22. "A bitching army is a good army" -- when employees are

happy it is because their employer is giving them too much
and not demanding enough from them

23. You can’t generalize about people at work because every

individual is different