If managers can acknowledge that calibrated contributing is, in many cases, rational behavior in response to the terms of employment they're offering, then they can start to own the responsibility to do something productive about it
Jim Detert just wants to set the record straight. The University of Virginia professor, who holds a joint appointment in the Darden School of Business and the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, has spent the last few years reading about a couple of trendy terms in the business world that are, really, just describing long-standing realities.
“We have suddenly started to use new buzzwords for phenomena that had actually been around for decades,” Detert said. “There was the ‘Great Resignation’ and now ‘quiet quitting.’”
[This article has been reproduced with permission from University Of Virginia's Darden School Of Business. This piece originally appeared on Darden Ideas to Action.]