Emotional energy
Emotional energy is a resource. Some people drain it, some people cultivate it. It is a resource which is difficult (but possible) to cultivate online. Should it be managed in a capitalistic manner? Or a more socialist manner? Or some other sort of manner?
I would claim that at the heart of HumanResources in the management of EmotionalEnergy. I think key to this is, as I’ve mentioned earlier, realizing that we appreciate things by their absence.
Emotional energy is a resource, but changing conditions create and use it, unlike other resources which (for the most part) continue to exist the same if conditions are left unchanged.
I’ve recently gotten a bunch of e-mail spam about “cheating housewives” and how they are all eager for “something they’re not getting at home” and I’m thinking to myself that even if that were true, it is probably because they’re all looking for that “newness” that exists at the beginning of a courtship. Their husbands that they’re cheating on are probably using the same site to find other people to cheat on.
Don’t get me wrong - I am definitely opposed to marital infidelity. I am, however, mentioning the above as a vivid example of how it is that emotional energy is created and used by changing conditions, whereas the potentially unchangingness of a married life is, apparently, for some, not enough to sustain sufficient emotional energy to prevent cheating.
So, if you’re going to manage people, realize they need change. Not too much, but not too little. Some may need more and some may need less. Finding the right way to balance it all just right for the sake of ensuring everyone has appropriate emotional energy directed at the appropriate place can be quite time problematic.