I always find it a very negative sign for a company, when the corridors are getting filled with pep talk posters, which could have come directly from the latest management magazine.
For me it is a clear sign, that innovation and real work done in the company is going rapidly downwards.
Continuously repeating, how good "we" are clearly says, that the company is currently "not good enough".
What might work in personal psychology, does not in corporations, where everything else tells the workers, that their work does not count, but only the work of the poster creators.
A woman of my acquaintance, a substitute teacher in one of the local school systems, has said that the number of posters about values and respect is in inverse proportion to the quality of the schooling.
I've heard that my company has been told to tighten the belt, that there are a lot of positions in the company that don't produce value to paying customers. At pretty much the same time, I'm seeing a wave of self-aggrandizing motivational posters. I think I see a connection.
For me it is a clear sign, that innovation and real work done in the company is going rapidly downwards.
Continuously repeating, how good "we" are clearly says, that the company is currently "not good enough".
What might work in personal psychology, does not in corporations, where everything else tells the workers, that their work does not count, but only the work of the poster creators.