A workplace should be three things to an employee:
1.) A place to serve: it is their only opportunity to show off their many skills and many talents, you must never deny them this opportunity. Do not turn them into robots, do not deny them of the very thing that makes them feel like humans. Make your employees' contributions top priority.
2.) A place to grow:
Help them grow their skills, our employees may not come fully prepared, provide training opportunities for them.
Help them grow their finance. While you take from them, do your best to give them. Don't underpay them or find unnecessary reasons to slash their salary.
Help them grow their network. Do not constrain them to your organisation. Your organisation may not bring out the best in them, it may not be their dream job! Don't be selfish about this investment. If they can't get to their dream, you will soon experience a depreciation in their output.
3.) A place to live: An average employee spends 8 hours of his/her day at work. Is your workplace healthy enough for them? Do you give time time to rest? Do you give them time to feed? Do you give them time to visit the hospital when they need to? Do you give them time to be with their loved ones? Or is it all about the money they make for you? Your employees shouldn't live just to work for you.
The responsibility of a company is to serve her customers. But a company is not that empty building tagged 'Claire's Company Ltd.', it is not those grandiose offices, it is not the goods at your supermarket. It is the people who work there, it is your employees. The growth of your company depends on these individuals, your range of services depends on them, your expertise depends on them, you cannot survive without them. Most organisations often forget this and turn their employees into mere objects to be used and dumped at will.
Dear Mr. manager, when next you're at work, please do not just focus on your duties as a manager, think of your employees.
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Nice piece. Psychological well being of workers is important too.
ReplyDeleteThank you Eddy
DeleteYou just said it all like Karl max in his theory of Labor Aristocracy.I remember he mentioned "incentives". He also said man are like machines(employees) and any machine uses oil or grease to function effectively.
ReplyDeleteYou're appreciated Dear Reader. I totally love your analogy..
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ReplyDeleteFunny. Thank you fellow Primer.
DeleteThanks MA for the great words
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome Gerald.
DeleteBeautiful and apt, you always had the write words.
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