Comment by jiggawatts

I’m not the person you’re asking the question from but I’m a consultant that has been to well over a hundred organisations big and small.

Employee happiness and team success is essentially random. More accurately: you can go to two “identical” companies directly competing in the same industry at the same scale and they can still be wildly different internally. One can be a depressing march to retirement and death, the other a place where people literally(!) sing with joy in the corridors.

Everything is likely to also be totally different: procedures (or lack thereof), policy, tools, training, etc…

Despite this, all organisations above a certain size are filled with people that are certain that their way is the only way things are done. They’ll argue until they’re blue in the face that nothing else could possibly work… with someone who was at their totally different competitor last week and saw that in fact a different approach is massively superior.

This variability is greatest for small scale workplace practices as typically decided by a “pointy haired boss” (PHB).

They also tend to be most convinced of their own methods, and the most resistant to change.