Thursday, May 3, 2007

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS????

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.
Why do talented employees leave ?
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 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. 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 job."

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 does'nt.

" Jack Welch of GE once said. A company's value lies "between the ears of its employees".

1 comment:

Ramesh said...

Contrary to your statement (I hope its a downloaded one) Infact am not leaving my boss rather am leaving my company. Because i got better opportunity and enhanced prospects than in present designation, posting, caliber, etc., It can't be drilled down to single reason that employees leave organisation for one and only reason, "THEY HATE BOSS". Not so, you know some bosses pave way for their subordinates to go out and look for a new job as my boss did, not that i should come up in my life, but for pushing me out off his group. Hee...Hee.. Dhool!