I'm taking a new job as a manager at a place where the staff is completely demoralized, to the point where when I came in to apply, one guy even told me not to bother because this place is a shitshow.
My plan is to sit down with each employee one-on-one (on the clock) and take 15-20 minutes to just touch base with them on their thoughts and feelings regarding the current state of affairs, solicit ideas on how to fix it, ask what they want out of a job, etc.
The one thing I can't affect is compensation as that is decided by people way higher up than me, but I'll be in a position to make some quality-of-life changes and to provide some much-needed structure to a place that has, by all accounts, been anarchy for a while.
My question is this: How would you react to a new manager sitting down with you and asking you these things?