Most managers do care about low employee morale

I believe many managers do know and do care. Some of them are not great people, but many are.

The problem is that they have 20 years of training to never stick your neck out. You will not see many managers take any initiative on this, regardless of their personal feelings, because our culture was one of robotic compliance for so long. They won't initiate something here until instructed to.

And the irony is they likely won't get that instruction for quite a while. Because part of the "don't stick your neck out" thing is telling people not to make a fuss. Dont complain up the ladder. Because why would want your boss to know your group has a morale problem? That might look like its your fault! Best to just keep your head down. I suspect most morale reporting dies at the DH level. A small amount may get to the Division or VP level. And by the time the message is getting to Dallas there isn't a morale problem anymore.

Reposted from @1kxo+1croPOpA, perfectly said.

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Most managers do care about meeting a current or former subordinate in a dark alley or on a lonely highway.
No question.

Part of being a great person IS being willing to stick your neck out for important things

OP you are an id--t. All managers keep their job only because they enforce d-mb top down policies. As a manager at EM, you cannot sympathize with employees and cannot have a rational intelligent brain.

Stop being a manager troll.

This post is funny. Most managers could care less as long as they are ranked well.

I just thought it was because they were spineless slugs that only care about themselves.

“Most managers do care about low employee morale”

Most managers care about their paychecks and staying in their jobs. Like most other mammals, they’re motivated primarily by self-preservation. I’ve personally never met one who cares about anyone other than themselves, though I’m told they exist.

@Managers: if the people below you want you to fail, you will fail. Keep that in mind as you kiss, rub, and lick your way up the corporate value chain.

@OP+1cA1Oj6E You sound like Xoms finest dividend hungry mgmt. member

In this environment of yearly PIPs, asset sales that eliminate teams and outsourcing of work no supervisor or manager is going to stick their neck out and potentially lose their cushy job. Most of them have no technical skills left if they ever had any to begin with. They have low morale too but they have a life raft of a new sup or management gig think about.

OP--what are you basing this belief on? I don't see it in management. Like @cwd+1cA1Oj6E, I see it in some supervisors and POs/SMs, but in all of my time and experience at XOM, there is no indication that the majority of management gives a sh-t about anything but themselves and their ranking, let alone employee morale. I'm being completely honest with myself too and giving them the benefit of the doubt; I gave them the benefit of the doubt for years and have continued to be disappointed time and time again.

No manager cares about morale, they will be rotated before their decisions would cause a shitstorm.
Supervisors and POs might care.

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