It's amazing how many successful business types like SJ or PG recognize that people are the most important thing, and still the majority of high level managers view people as completely interchangeable cogs.
I'd say it's more common to make people feel like cogs.
In companies I have worked in the best performing teams always had managers who worked with an attitude that their people were important and not easily replaceable. This held true from programming teams to basic call center employees.
From my limited anecdotal evidence it's clear to me that people are not interchangeable cogs in the machine. Hiring similar resumes will not always lead to same results, but I'm surprised how many managers still think this is true.