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From: Roland Ramjist
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 11:38

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I'm sorry, but you may be able to post as many statistics as you like,
but from personal experience as a consultant who has also worked on the
shop floor - fear doesn't work.

Organizational cultures that are based on fear simply do not survive in
the long haul.  Why?  Because fear reduces the creativity of people within
the organization.  It reduces people to mindless automatons who simply
follow orders and are afraid to stray from their "operating parameters"
handed down by their superiors.  Stifling the workforce's creativity
leads to lack of innovation.  Lack of innovation leads to lack of
competitiveness, which ultimately results in the death knell of a company.

You cannot have fear present in an organization without losing its most
important asset - its people.

Robert Spector, BASc
Manufacturing Performance Specialist
Len Jacobs & Associates Inc.

Robert.Spector@ablelink.org

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