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Quotes About Employee

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.
~ Daniel Yankelovich
We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.
~ Jim Ratcliffe
I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.
~ Carolyn Maloney
The bald fact is that many companies provide developers with a workplace that is so crowded, noisy, and interruptive as to fill their days with frustration. That alone could explain reduced efficiency as well as a tendency for good people to migrate elsewhere.
~ Tom DeMarco
The right way to think about domain knowledge is as a corporate capital asset, as dollars of investment in the head of each knowledge worker, put there by organizational investment in that employee. When that person leaves, the asset is gone. If you did a rigorous accounting of this human capital, you would be obliged to declare an extraordinary loss each time one of your people quit.
~ Tom DeMarco
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~ Tom Peters
when leaders fail to tell employees that they're doing a great job, they might as well be taking money out of their pockets and throwing it into a fire
~ Patrick Lencioni
It's important not to misread my advice as permission to tolerate people who don't fit. Too often, leaders know that an employee really doesn't belong and would be better elsewhere, and they fail to act because they lack courage.
~ Patrick Lencioni
Now, the wrong way to determine an organization's values is to survey the employee population. This may seem to be a useful way to test a hypothesis, but it is not a replacement for the introspection and discussion of an executive team. More important, it can lead to the adoption of a value set that executives are not willing to support.
~ Patrick Lencioni
high school kids at In-N-Out Burger and Chick-fil-A are doing largely the same job that kids at any other fast-food restaurant are doing, and yet there are a lot fewer miserable jobs at In-N-Out and Chick-fil-A. The difference is not the job itself. It is the management. And one of the most important things that managers must do is help employees see why their work matters to someone. Even if this sounds touchy-feely to some, it is a fundamental part of human nature.
~ Patrick Lencioni
restaurants would have a "salad bar" offering lettuce, tomato, onion, egg, pretend-bacon bits, Cheez Whiz and a Special House Dressing made by pouring ketchup out of a bottle, tended by an employee chosen on the basis of listlessness, whose job would be to make sure that all of these ingredients had been slopped over into each other's compartments.
~ Dave Barry
If you want what visible reality can give, you're an employee. If you want the unseen world, you're not living your truth. Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is love's confusing joy.
~ Unknown
Quelqu'un a-t-il fait attention au brouillard de ce matin ? dit l'employé. — C'était, dit Bianchon, un brouillard frénétique et sans exemple, un brouillard lugubre, mélancolique, vert, poussif, un brouillard Goriot. — Goriorama, dit le peintre, parce qu'on n'y voyait goutte. — Hé ! milord Gâôriotte, il être questiônne de véaus.
~ Honore de Balzac
Im a boss, your man is just an employee mami. Let me upgrade you.
~ Lil Wayne
You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.
~ Mallory Ortberg
CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.
~ Ashish Patel
Mr. Dragonbreath's boss had brought in three motivational speakers in the last month to talk to all the employees at the antacid bottling plant, and Danny was suffering the fallout.
~ Unknown
People join companies. They leave managers.
~ Verne Harnish
The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.
~ Paul Orfalea
The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.
~ Ricardo Semler
The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.
~ Jack Ma
Obama is attacking every business. He is attacking every employer and employee. He is attacking the system. He has a perverse mind.
~ Rush Limbaugh