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I work for a school district IT department that includes 43 employees. We have three administrators, two of whom directly supervise the 43 employees. I have worked in three different positions for the school district, two of which were in our department. Working in these different positions has given me the opportunity to see our department from a few different perspectives. It is my belief that our department has a problem with employee satisfaction and morale.
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There are many different causal reasons for the existence of this problem with employee satisfaction and morale. In this paper, I will address what I believe to be the most important factors that contribute to this problem. This employee satisfaction problem, and its causal and symptomatic problems, impacts the department in many ways. For example, we have lost valuable employees resulting in unnecessary attrition. There is a loss in productivity that results from the time and energy that many employees spend dealing with components and symptoms of the individual problems. This wasted t...
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