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"Over 500 of you responded to the Langley Story survey and we will shortly have some preliminary results. The next step is a series of focus groups to further define what kind of an organization we are and what prompts us to come to work each day."
Keith's note: One would assume that people are prompted to "come to work each day" because that is what you do when you have a "job" i.e. you go to work - each day.
Print this article@eep: It simply false that one must be a "motivated" employee to be productive. There are plenty of people who do their jobs extremely well, but yet look far more forward to going home at the end of 8 hours than they do to coming in to work in the morning.
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| January 13, 2010 8:33 AM
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Chuckie: Wow ... you must be either a manager (a bad one) or someone who has never had a job you've actually enjoyed. It's one thing to have a happy home life and want to get back to it, but the notion that someone who is excited by their work won't be more creative and productive than someone who hates it seems unlikely. "Simply false" - do you have something to back that up?
22 years with NASA. I still get a real kick out of my job. We work with some neat hardware doing things that grabs worldwide attention. But if they stopped paying me, would I keep coming in? I've got a family with 3 children to get through college. I work primarily because I need the money.
The real question is why does LaRC management have to ask employees what LaRC is and why they come to work.
Leadership (and there must not be much if any) at LaRC should be making the strategic decisions and putting forth a vision for LaRC employees and customers that is clear so everyone knows what they are doing and why they are doing it. IS it a research organization or something else?
This situation has the tail wagging the dog.
Sounds more like the Langley Management and Planning Center.
I'm agreeing with eep that looking for the reasons that people are motivated to go to work is a good thing, and should be supported. Ideally, we should all be motivated to go to work. However, there are plenty of examples of people who just go because "it's a job". I am finding that there are a lot of employees who seem to lack much motivation beyond getting a paycheck. They aren't the people I want to work with, but in many cases, I have to.
I applaud LaRC's decision to investigate this. I agree that other centers could benefit from performing a similar survey.
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... but if you only go to work because you *have to* - you're not a motivated (productive) employee. If you go to work because you're excited about what you do - that's what NASA needs.
If this is a genuine effort by LaRC to improve employee morale and productivity, I think we should be supporting it and hoping that it expands to other centers.