I enjoy debating with you. You're mature enough - I can see - to disagree without resulting to sophomoric insults or vulgar language.
Maybe I've turned cynical and jaded over the years, but I swwear to you, I wasn't born this way. Exposure to poor leaders all my life hardened me. Maybe you're not as old as I am, or maybe you were fortunate to have good bosses.
On the subject of morale, I am shocked and you'll be shocked to hear that WITHIN an organization, military or civilian, the topic of soldier or employee morale DOES NOT COME UP. It is regarded as a PERSONAL problem of the soldier or the employee and a character or personality failing if the individual cannot or will not motivate himself.
I discovered, dances_with_films, that whenever someone discusses the topic or subject of, MORALE, it is ALWAYS from someone OUTSIDE an organization, or from someone writing a book. Put it this way, dances_with_films, if you started and ran your own company and you hired tyrannical, abusive managers to run the employees, BUT your managers always met your productivity and profit targets, you would probably be unwilling to listen to reports of unhappy employees and poor morale. To your own perspective, YOU don't have a morale problem. Your employees have their OWN morale problem and if it's that bad, too bad; they can go work somewhere else. Get the idea, dances_with_wolves? It's easy for outsiders like you and me to critisize an organization when we're NOT employed in it.
In manufacturing factories it is all about, production, production, production. The more you make the more profit, assuming customers want your product. Anytime you're not making production you're losing. Anytime you cannot meet increasing demand, that's lost potential profit. That's why so many factory management and corporate owners treat manufacturing success as FAILURE. What do I mean? If a manufacturing corporation's product is in high demand, there will always be insufficient production. No corporation can afford an unlimited amount of manufacturing machinery to manufacture an infinite increasing amount of production. So the corporate management becomes frustrated and demands higher and higher production with the same number of employees and machinery. Any downtime must be justified. Companies take steps to increase production which actually ends up decreasing production but higher managerment doesn't want to hear it. Legitimate advice from the lower ranks is considered weakness and disloyalty and a lack of commitment to the corporation. This is where whip-cracking abusive managers become valuable. Bad employee morale? That's your problem, not managements and not the corporation. You just can't hack it, so you and I are told to our faces. Our only recourse is to either leave the military after enlistment is up, or resign from the corporation.
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