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Financial Times
Posted on June 27, 2012
The Unfriendly Skies
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/9893fbf...#axzz1zFSamN7H [subscription required]

United Pilot Jay Heppner Responsed to United CEO Jeffrey Smisek’s statement that U.S. policymakers are destroying the airline industry:

“Jeff Smisek ought to take a hard look in the mirror before accusing U.S. policymakers of destroying the airline industry. This is a man who has made millions and millions of dollars from United’s merger with Continental while single handedly directing the company’s strategy of eliminating U.S. jobs by offshoring and outsourcing them.

Just last week Mr. Smisek announced three new deals with foreign carriers while United pilots, who made tremendous sacrifices after September 11 to keep the company in business, continued to be held in a permanent holding pattern as the company stalls contract negotiations.

United is not ranked the worst airline by customers because of U.S. policymakers. It is because Mr. Smisek is making poor decisions that only benefit his management team’s bank accounts while disregarding what is best for customers and employees.”

jdt30

I like it, but is anyone reading that besides us?

APC225

"Financial Times" seems like a pretty obscure publication to the average person, but I think Harvard/Yale MBAs get a lifetime subscription when they graduate.

threeighteen

Financial Times is pretty reputable and well read.

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NYT, July 3.

Harry Levinson, a psychologist who helped change corporate America’s thinking about the workplace by demonstrating a link between job conditions and emotional health — a progressive notion when he began developing his ideas in the 1950s — died on Tuesday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 90.

As a management consultant and an educator at Harvard, M.I.T. and other universities, and through books, seminars and his own research institute, Dr. Levinson showed how psychoanalytical theories and methods could be used to motivate employees. He was among the first psychologists to postulate a connection between thwarted career aspirations and depression.

Many of his management theories are now practically truisms. But to the gray-flannel corporate culture of the postwar years, they were novel, compelling many managers to think beyond the traditional reward system of promotions and paychecks to motivate employees.

Dr. Levinson argued that a psychological contract existed between employees and employers, laying out the expectations each had of the other. Employees who feel that their employers have violated that contract will feel depressed, he said, and may well become underachievers.

He envisioned an even more dire situation in which employees despair of ever reaching their full potential — in psychological parlance, when they face a wide gap between their self-image and their ego ideal. It did not matter if such discontented employees were reacting to workplace unfairness or to their own inherent insecurities, he said; in either case, they were likely to feel helpless and depressed, and thus be underproductive or even disruptive.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/bu...ies-at-90.html

Dicecal

Pretty much describes the UAL work place...

tomgoodman

Actually, Graduate Business Schools do present such research, but businesses frequently ignore it. One case we studied involved a test of different room illumination levels on worker productivity at Western Electric. They tried low, medium, and high room brightness to see which the workers liked best and noted their product output for each scenario. To their surprise, productivity increased at all of the illumination levels. They realized that it was the showing of interest in the workers' opinions and comfort that boosted production, not the light levels.

EWR73FO

And I'm sure it ended right after they determined that to keep production up they would have to actually give a schilling all the time.