Exploring and Addressing the Causes of Job Misery

Anonymity

It is immensely more difficult to decide to leave an organization or a team (or a family for that matter) when you feel that others on the team know and understand you as an individual. And the person who can have the greatest influence by taking a personal interest in anyone on the job is the manager. Yes, even more than a CEO or an executive three levels higher in the food chain, a direct supervisor needs to take a genuine, personal interest in an employee in order to increase that employee's engagement and satisfaction.

What exactly does it mean to take a personal interest in someone? I've heard management training people advise supervisors to listen to the music that their employees ...

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