Salvaging the marriage between a distrusting boss and his fearful employee

Authors

Knowledge@SMU

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

11-2010

Abstract

Will empowering employees to manage their own careers bring about better job performance or will a more permissive environment lead to abuses? Dale Simpson, managing director of a human resources consultancy, leans towards the former, but he knows that most employers would rather hold on to the reins. After all, most employer-employee relationships today are premised on distrust – starting with the signing of a contractual agreement that holds each party legally liable for non-compliance. He believes, however, that employers can reap great benefits when they think of their relationship with employees as a 'marriage', bound not only by law, but also, love and trust.

Disciplines

Business | Human Resources Management

Copyright Owner and Holder

Copyright © Singapore Management University 2012

Licece/Creative Commons Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Article ID

1322

Subject(s)

Human Resources

Citation

Knowledge@SMU. Salvaging the marriage between a distrusting boss and his fearful employee. (2010).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/131