Employers worry about workplace morale, not about the morale of the employees they lay off.

Losing morale, the Jacobites retreated back into Scotland.

To be sure, sharing ownership can help employee morale.

Some kinds of austerity programs may indeed boost morale.

That is why sudden austerity cannot be a morale builder.

Oxford's presence raised morale in Henry's camp and troubled Richard III.

Austerity, according to some of its promoters, is supposed to improve morale.

Content that is harmful to social morale and has a negative impact on underage viewers

Austerity exposes the modern economy s lack of interpersonal connectedness and the morale costs that this implies.

Such stories are shared and reposted on social networks, a morale booster for the protest participants.

The Council s formation boosted the morale of those who have been demanding stronger and more unified representation.

Such measures not only lead to increased productivity they also bolster loyalty, morale, and thus employee retention.

It's a force that suffers low morale, poor readiness and is unable to keep up with potential adversaries.

And every quarter brought new write offs that ruined efforts to rebuild the bank s reputation and its employees morale.

This process, Mr. Schiff said, stalled the release of intelligence products, hurt morale among analysts and insufficiently accommodated dissenting views.

He found that they believed that a serious morale problem would result from reducing everyone s hours and pay during a recession.

By cultivating a high degree of morale and proficiency, we strengthen the bonds between the peoples of Japan and recipient countries.

The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.

Even if delayed until next year, its immediate proposal by Bush and endorsement by both presidential candidates would help morale in Georgia.

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to America as well, impairing its military power and undermining the morale of the armed forces.

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.

Public morale is low, people live in a constant state of fear, and the dominant regime rigs its way to victory at every election.

It is less important, for instance, to steal a copy of North Korea s bomb designs than to know the morale and capability of its scientists.

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.

Morale among professors in science will remain low until they decide that their strongest feelings, as well as their best data, should determine professional behavior and professional status.

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.

To clichés of freedom of choice and abolitionist morale, I would oppose firstly the evidence from studies and testimonies that most prostitutes were victims of sexual abuse in their infancy.

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.

At root, low morale is just a consequence of the indifference of medical scientists, busy in their labs, allowing the social and emotional foundations of their field to rot away beneath them.

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.

Amazingly, and as more proof that humans are social and creative creatures under any circumstances, entertainment and music in particular have been a huge part of keeping up morale during Euromaidan rallies.

A bus full of white people, who sing songs in a black language this degree of recognition brings not only morale and joy, but some grim faced border soldiers even shed a few tears.

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.

Low morale results from too little kindness and decency it is a failure of custom and manners, a loss of social purpose, a diminution of the ability or the will to distinguish right from wrong and then to act rightly.

In between the two extremes of discord and morale, the country now finds itself trying to make sense of the events, which have highlighted deep tensions in the relationship between political leaders, the police and the communities they aim to serve.

For example, MAS Holdings in Sri Lanka has incorporated into the workplace nursing stations, on site banking, and company buses that ease employees commutes and facilitate participation in sports programs. Such measures not only lead to increased productivity they also bolster loyalty, morale, and thus employee retention.

But it soon turned out that the managers had little time to spend on Nordbanken s core banking business, because they had to focus disproportionately on handling an enormous variety of assets. And every quarter brought new write offs that ruined efforts to rebuild the bank s reputation and its employees morale.

Businesses can fire or hire workers largely at will and there are no significant costs to massively trimming the payroll (as we are now seeing with German owned Chrysler). The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.

A society can let the free market distribute this gain, or it can intervene to direct it to the least advantaged, so that some get more than their marginal product, others less. Since the least skilled workers face morale problems that lower their wages and erode their employability, it makes sense to deliver the mutual gain that is redistributed to them through subsidies that encourage greater self support and employment.