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UNPREPARED EMPLOYEES
Where's the problem of unprepared employees start from? A young person, if given the chance can resolve most things if allowed. This is what motivation of employees is about. Most organisational cultures breed dependency which doesn't allow them the responsibility of educating themselves in their own expectancy and criteria of knowledge. So do companies expect to find the workers they seek even with hindsight. If you spend time, one-on-one, what you put in you get out (even with your employees) the same way which is applied to your company objectives for profits. It allowing the employees the atmosphere of disagreeing with your point of view with equal respect. Age doesn't count in developing the mind of reason even in business. Why bother employ someone if you don't ever ask them anything regarding the operations with they deal with daily and can foresee any problems in their working environment which as a manager you might not have been aware of until it become a crisis. A business can only enhance (whether good or bad) the skills that an employee bring with him to the job. It should be up to the employee to fully participate in self-education of what the work requires for the present as well as the future. If a person is not prepared for the work, they should not be employed. However, they should be given written guidance notes of where improvements could be made before and during their employment and any promotions ~ on a regular basis instead of yearly, not point-scoring on an appraisal form. If an employee is not prepared for promotion, they should be allowed to stay where they are until they are fully prepared for the new role. If an employee really is motivated in what they are doing they would go out of their way to accomplish the company's objectives for themselves. The quality sought after in business is the productivity of employee that you hire which isn't solely based on this notion of "it has to be on my desk by yesterday" by managers. Then you will no doubt get shoddy work being done. So what quality of employee is being fostered. The reason I think employees are unprepared stems not from the work itself but from the lack of building a work character or ethos which should be the sole responsibility of an individual to develop. There is an attitude of "...I'll just do enough to get by..." in this job until I'm headhunted or "...as long as I show up at work on a Monday morning...". WEBSITE ARTICLES: The End of the World as We Knew It
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