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It''s a shocking statistic: in about 85% of companies, employee morale declines sharply after just the first six months - and continues to deteriorate for years afterward. The fault, according to the authors, who surveyed about 1.2 million employees at 52 primarily Fortune 1000 companies, lies squarely with management, which often unwittingly demotivates employees and diminishes, if not outright destroys, their enthusiasm. This article describes how individual managers'' behaviors and styles are contributing to the problem and shows what they can do to turn this around. The first step is to understand the three sets of goals that a majority of workers seek from their work - equity, achievement, and camaraderie - and then work to satisfy all three. Read about eight practices, spanning these goals, that can help individual managers to have a profound influence on employee motivation.