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     <title><![CDATA[Valuing versus Recognizing Employees ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is a lot of talk about recognition out there. A Google search just on the term &ldquo;Employee-Recognition&rdquo; churns out over 900,000 hits. Recognition is one of those principles of people management that we are routinely reminded of, and frankly, should be reminded of as it is something t...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Jeff-Jolton/December-2006/Recognizing-Small-Win-Aphasia]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Recognizing Small Win Aphasia ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As we wind down the year and many of us are in the midst of a year-end celebrations, I thought this would as good a time as any to discuss a process dysfunction I call &ldquo;Small Win Aphasia.&rdquo;
Aphasia is a medical condition where you are no longer able to speak (articulate ideas) or see wor...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Meet the Slackeys ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There are many different ways that people are dysfunctional at work. Perhaps those that irk the most people are those that do the least.
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These are the people who are committed to staying at the company, but aren&rsquo;t engaged. That is, they aren&rsquo;t making a meaningful contribution, b...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:27:57 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Jeff-Jolton/December-2006/The-ABC-s-of-the-Rogue-Manager]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[The ABC's of the Rogue Manager ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Last week this blog discussed why dysfunctions persist in organizations. One key factor is that there is often something about the behavior or process that is reinforcing somehow. To help understand what is reinforcing a dysfunction, I suggested the use of ABC (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence) Analy...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:26:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Send in the Reinforcements ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Yesterday we talked about the folly of rewarding one behavior while wanting another behavior to occur.
When we talk about dysfunctions of any kind, most people understand that the behavior or processes are not effective in some manner. The question then becomes, if it&rsquo;s broke, why don&rsquo;t...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Folly of It All! ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I was speaking with a colleague the other day and she relayed the following story to me.
A friend of hers, who works for a life insurance firm, confided that whenever her group is asked to complete an organization survey, they give everything high marks. The reason being that the one time they answ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[What is dysfunctional anyway? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What is dysfunctional anyway?
Yesterday we talked about three sources of dysfunctions in organizations (People, Processes, and Strategy), but didn&rsquo;t get into too much detail about what exactly do we mean by dysfunction.
Merriam-Webster defines dysfunctional as either:
1 : impaired or abnorm...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The fun in dysfunctional organizations! ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s have some fun this year by using this blog space to explore and discuss those things at work that annoy, frustrate, sadden, anger, and exasperate us. Specifically, let&rsquo;s discuss dysfunctions in work organizations &ndash; what they are, why they are, and how we can fix or survive th...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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