Almost every company faces the problem of employee turnover and for reason that range from career development to employee friendly human resources (HR) policies, to better salaries or even a canteen which services better food.
But if all the above are provided and the organisation continues to lose good people, it is time to have a closer look at their managers because more than any other person in an organisation, they influence whether employees leave or stay and thrive with an organisation.
People leave managers not companies, wrote HR experts Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in their book First Break al the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Mangers Do Differently.
Different managers can stress out employees in different ways, by being too controlling, to critical, too pushy and or too suspicious forgetting that workers are not fixed assets but rather free agents.
Experts believe that of all the abuses that employees might have to put up with at work, humiliation is the most intolerable. The first time, the employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted; the second time that, they look for another job.
Even if employee stay with the job but find no redress, they will begin to show signs of passive aggression. This could include slowing down; doing only what they are told to do and no more; omitting to give the boss crucial information. They no longer have their heart and soul in the job and the only thing that they can think of is how to get their boss into trouble.
And if this goes on too long the employee will leave quite often over a trivial issue taking his or her contacts, experience and knowledge straight to the competition.
But if all the above are provided and the organisation continues to lose good people, it is time to have a closer look at their managers because more than any other person in an organisation, they influence whether employees leave or stay and thrive with an organisation.
People leave managers not companies, wrote HR experts Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman in their book First Break al the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Mangers Do Differently.
Different managers can stress out employees in different ways, by being too controlling, to critical, too pushy and or too suspicious forgetting that workers are not fixed assets but rather free agents.
Experts believe that of all the abuses that employees might have to put up with at work, humiliation is the most intolerable. The first time, the employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted; the second time that, they look for another job.
Even if employee stay with the job but find no redress, they will begin to show signs of passive aggression. This could include slowing down; doing only what they are told to do and no more; omitting to give the boss crucial information. They no longer have their heart and soul in the job and the only thing that they can think of is how to get their boss into trouble.
And if this goes on too long the employee will leave quite often over a trivial issue taking his or her contacts, experience and knowledge straight to the competition.
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