The 2 Types of Respect Leaders Must Show

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Kristie Rogers, an assistant professor of management at Marquette University, has identified a free and abundant resource most leaders aren’t giving employees enough of: respect. She explains the two types of workplace respect, how to communicate them, and what happens when you don't foster both. Rogers is the author of the article “Do Your Employees Feel Respected?” in the July–August 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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0:37.0	I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. All of us would probably enjoy feeling more respected at work.
0:49.0	In fact, employees rank respect as the most important
0:52.6	leadership behavior.
0:53.8	And yet they feel that their expectations
0:56.6	of respect in the workplace, the vast majority of people
0:59.2	say their expectation is not met.
1:01.2	So as a leader, how much do you think about the kind of respect you're showing other people?
1:06.0	Even if creating a culture of respect is a priority,
1:09.0	our guest today says getting workplace respect right isn't simple. It's more nuanced than we think it is.
1:15.0	So the single word respect is often used to mean two very different things.
1:20.0	That's Christy Rogers. She's an assistant professor of management
1:23.5	at Marquette University.
1:25.1	And she's the author of the HBO article,
1:27.2	Do Your Employees, feel respected.
1:31.0	Christy, thank you so much for coming in today. Oh, thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.
1:35.0	So in the article you wrote that it's common for managers to not realize that their employees don't feel respected.
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