Experiencing Joy at Work

Experiencing Joy at Work

When looking at the article there are a few things to me that stuck out and resonated with me because I have experienced in certain instances both sides of the coin the joyful side and the miserable side of work. The first chapter of the article I will talk about is the miserable side of work.

I myself have dealt with being on the labor side of work and the office side or management as the author calls it. I believe the author to be correct when he says that management has a perceived notion that laborers can’t be trusted to make sounds decisions . When I worked in the office of my job as opposed to out in the warehouse you were treated with a different amount of respect. If you happened to be a grunt laborer you were respected much less than the office counterparts now I’m not saying this happens at every workplace but I do certainly think it is something that goes on but needs to change. I also agree that management may act like that because they haven’t experienced a joyful workplace either it seems that the cycle just continues.

I found the idea of the managers becoming more transparent to be a good idea I feel if you give more input or focus to your lower level employees then you increase someone’s interest and they feel their voice is being heard. To make the workplace joyful their needs to be a dynamic of the employees where they feel as if they can be open and say how they feel but also give ideas on how to increase productivity in the workplace I feel that their ideas certainly channeled these ideas and brought them to light with the employees.

Out of all the sections in the article I felt the one that had the best insight I believe on a joyous workplace was the scorekeeping, accountability, and rewards section. First I feel scorekeeping is intelligent in the workplace to bread a sense of competiveness. The two most important though I believe are being accountable