Share 'Fear, Loathing and No Respect'

In an environment full of fear, loathing and no respect of the leadership, how does one engage employees? Before you answer, let me set the stage for the question: I've been working with a client as a consultant trying to help them implement some cultural changes to bring their processes and technology into the 21st century (they are stuck in 1985). In order to do this, we have to get the emplo…