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Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation Business literature is packed with advice about worker motivation—but sometimes managers are the problem, not the inspiration. Here are seven practices to fire up the troops. From Harvard Management Update. by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer Most companies have it all wrong. The great majority of employees are quite enthusiastic when they start a new job. The fault lies squarely at the feet of management—both the policies and procedures companies employ in managing their workforces and in the relationships that individual managers establish with their direct reports. Our research shows how individual managers' behaviors and styles are contributing to the problem (see sidebar "How Management Demotivates")—and what they can do to turn this around. Equity: To be respected and to be treated fairly in areas such as pay, benefits, and job security. To maintain an enthusiastic workforce, management must meet all three goals. But security is just the beginning. 2. 3.