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Someone has said:"Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line.
In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity.
It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal."
Such pillars are responsible for success stories of a company. The Leobond is herself a part of this SWITCHING THEORY. Today as I shut down my system, I thought to pen down what is going around me.
If I talk about 80's in India , the market growth was slow and people once in one job,never thought of leaving the company before retirement. But ,now 15 years down the line,the attrition rate is ten fold higher and our crib session goes on and on. The mental satisfaction has been replaced by mental retardation in the job.
The Leobond introspects and finds that if given an option to correct myself I will go back two years back and would take back my papers...Really not joking but the series which started there is now never ending. Reasons can be countless but solution is none. People have several perceptions on this SWITCH theory but Azim Premji says : Why Employess Leave Organization?
"The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:
If you're losing good people, look to their manager .... manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he 's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.
"People leave managers not companies ," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.
Mostly manager drives people away?
HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.
When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information.
Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.
Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't. "
This was his perception, but the Leobond feels that loyalty is a two-way street -Loyalty Up & Loyalty-Down,dont hurry and take decisions in haze. Its always respect for Superior and care for one's team which wins the race in the end...:)
Friends, Leobond expects all the friends to share their views on the SWITCH THEORY...Lets Xplore 2GeTHR...;);)....
This is true that "People leave managers and not companies" but in my view it is partial true because many a times especially in so called process driven companies, managers do not have the power to retain people. Especially at the lower level of about 4-7 exp range people employee hop jobs because those are the people who are always in demand and these are the people who actually works. The people have experience less than 4 years dont get good opportunities and people have more than 7 years of exp looks for management positions for themselves.
ReplyDeleteI think in today's world it is very much necessary to overhaul the retaining policies within the company. Treating the loyal people as dead wood will not serve the company well.
The need of the hour is not only the amount of work but the quality of the work and the loyalty should be well awarded.
It seems that so called HR managers have forgot the basic principle "Hiring new employee will cost much more than retaining the existing one".
Other wise how can one justify a fresher getting more salary than the loyal experienced person. The truth is company's HR are involved in the large scam where they earn a lot of money from the external agencies.
Between it is a nice article and thanks for bringing this up..
Good write yet again Leobond! :)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, to switch or not to switch is the big Q. While every mortal will have an opinion, or not necessarily, on this, here is mine :
- it is a two-fold fact: like you said, two-way street...
-some may not change for the fear of unknown, or for the fear of 'change' it self.
-some may have resigned themselves to Fate
- yet others will have resolved unto a life of inaction and to just go with the flow
- some will be of too low a resolve to revolt, rebuke, rebel or switch, when met by tough situations.
- others will be eternal believers in Hope --- that one day all will be good and that this is the way it is.
aphew, enough with this, all in all, it is another good one.
And yes, Puneet def. has put it right, saying the policies, need to change.