Many employees do not wish to work hard; some are disillusioned and others feel the pay and benefits are substandard. Indeed although the unemployment is below 5% some feel that they are under employed. Some employees feel that the illegal immigrants have driven down pay and benefits in America.
All this may be components of the issue and whereas it is not a simple issue, there is more too it, as some believe that the American work force lacks ethics. Many business owners often complain about this fact. And although it is not all workers it is an ever growing percentage of the over all work force. Personally, I have done business in 4-countries, set up franchises in 123 cities and 23 states. I have also been to every city in the United States over 10,000 population and talked with workers, middle managers, executives and run companies and had franchisee team meetings, over saw operations and did many sneak checks. We have had franchisees come from other companies to work with us from all sets of blue and white collar. And from what I can tell there are some issues work ethic in the United States.
Here is a summary of a conversation with a striking Boeing Company worker not too long ago and you can see there are two-sides to each issue.
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Some workers complain that they do not make enough each month to pay the bills and this is why they do not feel they should have to work hard. However true this maybe I have to ask; What does honesty and work ethic have to do with pay? If you promise when hired to do your best and compete for that job, you ought to hold up your word once you get the job. Otherwise you lack integrity, that is dishonest and no excuse can be made for failure to make good on that promise when you got hired in the first place. When we discuss this topic of work ethic, we must consider all this in 2006.
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