Given More Freedom

More freedom for Employees

Employees at most jobs are given tasks and objectives that they have to complete by a certain time. This can put a lot of stress on an employee because it is a repetitive job that can cause a lot of stress and demotivate an employee to work. The article breaks down the groups of people into two types: person X and person Y. Person X is the one who will try to avoid work at all costs and is also the one who has to be punished, warned, and threatened at all costs to keep them working. Person Y is the one who works hard all day and doesn't mind putting in a hard day's work. They also are very committed to the objectives they have to complete and want to finish them in a timely matter. It turns out that people are more likely to want to come to work and commit to their job if they are given more freedom in their job. The article states that people will be more positive towards their work if they had some self direction instead of a standard format of tasks that they would have to complete.

In chapter 7 we discussed the different types of acting: surface, deep, and genuine. I think these connect well to what the article is talking about because if people are not wanting to go to work then they are simply going to act in a way that isn't how they really feel or surface acting. Which could cause an employee to feel a level of burnout and begin to display negative emotions resulting from the continued dissatisfaction from their job. I agree that employees do need a little freedom in the way they do their job because it gives them a challenge and motivates them to want to do the job that much more efficiently. We also talked theory X and theory Y in chapter 12, which discussed how X people are the ones who are lazy and don't want to put energy into their work. Whereas Y people aren't lazy and enjoy the work that they do. The biggest question to answer to how to get people to go from X to Y. I think by giving employees more freedom in how they do their work can get them to change over from X to Y.

What do you think cause to people to act like X or Y people? Has this ever happened to you? If yes how did you overcome it?

-Brian Cullum team 7