Jai
Jagannath,
Why Employees
Leave Organizations ? - Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro
Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for
better pay or profile. Early this year, Mark, a senior software
designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work
in its India operations developing specialized software. He was
thrilled by the offer. He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary
was great. The company had all the right systems in place
employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new
office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served
superb food.
Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the
sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined. Last week,
less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the j o
b.
Why did this talented employee leave?
Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away. 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 immediate boss
...Immediate boss 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 j o b. 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. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you
basically want to get him into trouble. You don't have your heart
and soul in the j o b." 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.
Regards
Nilachakra
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