Respect for the employees needs to be given.
Understanding that their employees are people not farm animals put on the earth to work for their company.
The raises are not merited based off skill or experience it is based solely off of time spent working there.
Again, managers should remember that we are humans who have lives outside of work and that a sick child or a broken down car.
A particular co-worker never knew the difference between personal conversation and small talk with customers. She used to always make people uncomfortable when she spoke to them.