In a company, an employee’s happiness, behavior, attitude and innovation are all greatly influenced by one thing and that is the company’s organizational culture. As Dov Siedman has elaborated employees are extrinsically motivated by their wages but they can be intrinsically motivated as well to work. As a company moves away from the simple carrot and sticks (rewards versus punishment) system and towards a more complex and positive style of engagement within its infrastructure then the company can grow from within.
As Dov Siedman has said “organizations that harness and support the most inexpensive and abundant source of energy—human energy—will generate the ideas, connections, collaborations, behaviors, and innovations they need to mitigate the threats and maximize the opportunities that our morally and ethically interdependent marketplace poses”. This makes me wonder as to why you do not see this type of development set as a standard within companies. This questioned whether or not companies are just unwilling to change their structure, pay some extra costs or if truly they do not see the long term benefits of achieving this. Then again I guess for some companies, they are unable to achieve such things, probably unwilling to or lacking the financial backing. Still, there doesn’t really seem to be a negative reaction that can be created from making a positive culture.
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/nov2010/ca2010118_005704.htm