Every boss has a boss. Try to put urself in his shoes, In todays highly paid salaries its difficult for your boss to say no to his boss considering his pay scale. Hence he also has deadlines to meet.
On top of it he has a team of employees only half of which give 100% and every one of which thinks he/she is the best performer.
Its almost difficult to keep all ppl in ur team happy.
A lot that is said in this article is HR crap. Key variable which this article does not cover is the market conditions for hiring. Now the job market is booming and people can afford to switch jobs easily. That is why you see a lot of talent management initiatives in companies, of course keeping HR managered fired up. I don't think most companies are inherently employee friendly as the article suggests. I would love to see why people quit when market is not booming. Attrition itself is a non issue in a falling market. One thing is sure the job sites that you are mentioning in this article will be the first ones to go out of business if there is no attrition.
RE:Market economy
by GN on Jan 13, 2008 04:53 PM Permalink
market conditions: with lot of new projects, there are lot of job opportunities. Even many good companies finding difficult to find suitable staff, labours to fill the requirement. But the companies are really losing in terms of quality of the employee.
for example. let us consider a constuction companies materials dept. staff. ( either a purchase officer / store keeper ) Many have certificates of BE and above that. But i had seen many of such employees, who dont have the required material knowledge. The company loses lot of money by employing such people, only based on the certificates, but not on the experience and knowledge.
Sometimes if you do against your boss he can ruin your career not only in the company but across industry. I am a victim of my Boss's attitude and am out of my job. He is screaming to the whole world and ruining my career. Ofcourse, I consider barking dogs do not bite and am trying to come out on my own. One day my boss would realise his mistake and I am sure.
I thank myself to take this step. I left my arrogant, in-human boss. I am sure people out their might be having similar experiences. Take my word, do not keep on compromising and ruin your life. Take bold steps and JUST QUIT.
RE:RE:Already left the boss and now happy
by GN on Jan 13, 2008 03:52 PM Permalink
If you dont enjoy your job, rather than keep abusing your boss and the company, better quit
But always remember, provided you are not going to start your own business, you will always find a similar chair above you.
Rather than running away from the problems, try to understand your boss. (ref. my message below)
RE:Already left the boss and now happy
by oneindianamongbillion on Feb 03, 2008 10:33 PM Permalink
why do we need to understand bulllshit boss who needs to understand subordinates.. nice article.. Leader means leading ... not imposing curfew on people...
A case in Times of India, this female reporting person used to do all the work with physical force and high handedness (she was physically muscular and well built too). She, in most instances was brainless, except for Sychophancy, which she used to do religiously with her Boss. With the help of this Sychophancy, she continued to hold place in Times of India, eventhough being physically and verbally intimitading and frightening and not adding any thinking value to her reportees' thinking or work. India has a few such cases as well...
I had seen my labours compalining about their foremans for the work pressure and shouting to do work fast. same Foreman's sitting frustrated on his Site engineer for work pressure and shouting to get the work faster, with minimum resources.
Site engineer's eating pain killers for head ache and abusing the project managers due to lack of information and plans
project managers frustrated on consultant for not providing the approval at right time, on the personal dept. for not providing enough resources, purchase dept. for not providing the materials and so on.
the list goes on like that. till the ultimate owner of the organisation. even he will be frustrated on the clients, govt. dept., the banks, etc etc.
Frustration at higher levels, gets passed on to the lower side. but remember it is always much hotter towards the higher side.
Employees must understand, your boss must be getting much tougher dozes from his superior. he must be even getting more F words than you.
cool down. take a deep breath, rather than trying to find the mistake in his intention, try to understand your boss.
Tomorrow, when you will sit on his chair, being held responsible for any mistake of your subordinates, You may be much bigger nuisance. Think about it.
RE:TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR BOSS
by Gagandeep Singh on Jan 13, 2008 04:22 PM Permalink
Agreed. Every boss has a boss and the good/bad deal starts at the top. But if the owner of company is not organized enough to make his team work ethically and in less stressful environment, the company will never Grow, thus increasing stress to higher levels for everyone. Every employee can get a chance to shift to other organization but no owner can take this step. So it is in Owner's hands to keep the environment comfortable or he will loose money he spends to train an employee, everytime someone leaves his bloody rganization. Take my word, be friendly, understand your employee. I have worked as a boss and as a subordinate and have always tried to make my subordinates comfortable at their respective positions.
RE:TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR BOSS
by GN on Jan 13, 2008 04:36 PM Permalink
If you compare a small SSI unit with few employees, the matter will be totally depend on the decision on the owner. With a wrong attitude he can damage a lot, but at the same time, being a small company he can gamble to replace anybody at any moment and still control his business and boast his ego more.
But when you consider the larger scale business and specially Multi national companies, the effect of such frustrations and employee satisfactions are taken care more. Even the monthly team meat, and staff breifing are common part in todays world. Even the newsletters reporting the progress of projects, tenders even at different regions are provided to staff to keep them motivated and create a proudness about the organisation you are working with.
Even in this type of companies you will find people, who had started career from bottom levels, reaching to the sr. management positions. but once they reach the top level, they forget the path they traveled and try to finish off , demoralise the upcoming subordinates.
I totally agree with the statement of leaving the boss than a company. Its very difficult to live with the fact that in spite of company being good and lot of potentials to grow & prosper but Head is being manipulative and politically motivated things start getting worse.
