I’ve posted before about how television affects our expectations for our workplace. One of the things that I notice on television is that there is a no shortage of employees who speak up at work, but typically, their dissent leads to nothing. Most dissent from employees on TV is either ignored or outright rejected by supervisors. What influence does that have? Does failed dissent on television make us more likely to believe that our own dissent will fail, that we shouldn’t even say anything at all? It may seem harmless, and I’m certainly not advocating giving up television, but we may need to reflect a little more on what we watch.
Filed under: Dissent | Tagged: Job Expectations, organizational dissent, Realistic Job Expectations, television and work
