How to retain an employee

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Good managers try to provide ideal conditions for their employees: a comfortable office, flexible hours, decent salaries. And, despite this, they are losing their "fighters".

Why? There are many reasons. Here are 10 harmful tips for a leader - follow them if you want to lose your best employees.

1. Look to the past, not the future

Business is a living organism. He must constantly evolve. But if you want to kill initiative and creativity in your employees, then hire them to help an inveterate conservative who is used to working the old-fashioned way, using old-fashioned, proven methods.

2. Hammer on the mission

Everyone needs money. Much money. Especially your employees. Therefore, you should not bother with a corporate idea. Does it matter what the purpose of your company is? If you want artisans to work with you, and not creators, then do not think about the mission of your business and in no case explain it to your employees.

3. Make a homogeneous team

No mixing of generations, no exchange of experience - old people should work with old people, and young people with young people. Lack of new ideas and the ability to learn from older colleagues is a great way to get rid of a good employee.

4. Be a dictator

Become an authoritarian leader, stifle any unorthodox thinking, initiative and creativity. No self-respecting employee can get along with such a boss.

5. Value time, not results

Do not believe that the employee works better, for example, in the evening - let him sit in the office from 08:00 to 17:00. Basta. And no Twitter, Facebook, or phone in the workplace, there is a weekend for personal matters. After all, you pay for the working time, and not for the result of the work. Whoever doesn't like it, let them go!

6. File down the railing of the career ladder

Growth up? Prospects? In no case! An employee can be transferred to another department, to another position, but not promoted. Sooner or later he will run into his professional ceiling and go to another company. But that's all you need, right?

7. Don't listen to the HR officer

How can some HR manager know better than you what kind of employees you need? Eliminate HR in your company. Recruit yourself - there is nothing to feed the idle personnel officers. And in any case, do not learn from the successful experience of other leaders.

8. Use the stamp "Top Secret"

Management decisions are the business of the manager. Subordinates do not need to know about them. Never explain your decisions or ask for advice from employees, and soon there will be few or few of them.

9. Don't worry about continuing education

Courses, seminars, conferences are all so expensive and troublesome. Why do you need this? The workers somehow do their job - let them continue. Only the most talented of them will escape from monotony and lack of development.

10. Hire Amateurs

Professionals are too ambitious. If you don't let them learn and develop, they will quit. It is much easier with amateurs: no pretensions, no problems. If only they paid.

If you recognize yourself in one of these bad advice, then you should seriously consider working with your staff. Try to fix the situation as soon as possible if you do not want to be left without qualified personnel.