Leadership Transitions and Team Building: Leadership Collection (2 Books)

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Employment in the Networked Age

Rebuilding Trust and Loyalty through an Alliance

Imagine it’s your first day of work at a new company. Your manager greets you with warm enthusiasm, welcomes you to “the family,” and expresses her hope that you’ll be with the company for many years to come. Then she hands you off to the HR department, who sits you down in a conference room and spends thirty minutes explaining that you’re on a ninety-day probation period, and that even after that, you’ll be an “at will” employee. At any moment, you can be fired. For any reason, you can be fired. Even if your boss has no reason at all, you can be fired.

You just experienced the fundamental disconnect of modern employment: the employer-employee relationship is ...