Morale
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After years of torturing people in one of South America’s most savage “dirty wars,” Brazil’s generals decided to stop it, because its institutionalized use was undermining the armed forces’ discipline and
morale.
Her campaign’s combination of authoritarianism and confusion, if not sheer incompetence, is sapping her supporters’
morale
while confirming the deep reservations of her opponents.
They attack any sort of hope or progress to try to undermine
morale.
While the fires would not have been stopped if we had three times the number of fire brigade workers and firefighting airplanes, a country suffering a decade-long diminution of its public services, its communities, and its
morale
can scarcely be expected to prepare itself well for a calamity made worse by climate change.
Finally, the “home advantage” includes not just the benefit of
morale
and the opportunity to train in the actual Olympic venues, but also the funding boost that host status brings.
But that argument ignores the effect of sporting success on national morale, an intangible factor in a country’s success in other, more “serious,” spheres of endeavor.
Austerity, according to some of its promoters, is supposed to improve
morale.
Some kinds of austerity programs may indeed boost
morale.
Austerity exposes the modern economy’s lack of interpersonal connectedness and the
morale
costs that this implies.
He found that they believed that a serious
morale
problem would result from reducing everyone’s hours and pay during a recession.
Employers worry about workplace morale, not about the
morale
of the employees they lay off.
Their damaged
morale
certainly affects others as a sort of externality, which matters very much; but it does not matter to the firm that has laid them off.
That is why sudden austerity cannot be a
morale
builder.
For morale, we need a social compact that finds a purpose for everyone, a way to show oneself to be part of society by being a worker of some sort.
Even if delayed until next year, its immediate proposal by Bush and endorsement by both presidential candidates would help
morale
in Georgia.
Add to that a weakened mandate and flagging morale, and the department has lately seemed to be fading into irrelevance.
And recurring reports of security failures and acute
morale
problems at US missile sites today add further alarming weight to this concern.
But this view fails to account for the potential consequences of a premature withdrawal of US and NATO forces, including diminished
morale
among Afghan forces and renewed hope among the Taliban that they will be able to retake control of the country relatively soon.
The final hit is comes in the form of the resignation of the IMF’s first deputy managing director, Stanley Fischer, who was in charge of assuring continuity and good sense as well as staff
morale.
Such measures not only lead to increased productivity; they also bolster loyalty, morale, and thus employee retention.
Just as in war, cruelly raping women is symbolic: it creates cohesion within armed groups, reaffirms “masculinity,” and is a form of attacking “the enemy’s morale.”
He was the right man in 1940 to raise British morale, when
morale
was about the only thing the British had going for them.
Put the banks in the hospital, give them loving care (in other words, hold none of the bankers accountable or even scold them, but rather boost their
morale
by inviting them to consult on the way forward), and, most important, shower them with money, and soon all would be well.
The regime aims to boost North Korea’s international prestige and domestic
morale
simultaneously, with the population supposedly keen to support this show of the country’s technological and military might.
The key words must be meritocracy and
morale.
Foreign Minister Kozyrev is also blamed for a collapse in
morale
within the diplomatic corps.
A combination of rising aspirations and increasing popular mistrust and discontent regarding public institutions has undermined “tax morale” – people are less willing to pay taxes.
Low tax
morale
in turn makes it difficult for governments to finance better public services and thus respond to new social demands.
Having more women in leadership positions effects positive change throughout an organization, improving performance, innovation, creativity, resilience, and
morale.
But it’s not, and operating under the assumption that it is can ultimately harm employees’
morale.
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