Job Malaise? Is Role Clarity to Blame?

If we reframe the question, “Is this job doable?” to “What is my role in this organization?”, immediately, we begin to consider an age-old challenge in the workplace: Role Clarity. Most of us know that role clarity is a significant driver of employee retention, satisfaction, and productivity. However, most of us are probably thinking about how to design, implement, and sustain role clarity in the wrong ways. In our efforts to provide better role clarity for our direct reports, perhaps we are solving for the wrong things.