Writing in Employee Benefits (3 July 2002: 3) Carry Cooper, head of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester, suggests that ‘… not all employees are brimming over with motivation’, but Cooper believes this is not necessarily a problem: ‘… as long as they are doing a good job, and that is all they want to do … why not just accept it? ‘Why do they have to be high flyers?’ ‘Not everybody can be a high performing employee … you need some people who can get the job done and do it properly.’

What might be the implications for the organisation if all managers thought this way?