I am a novice to this, but have found some interesting articles on this site over the last few months. I just wanted to post my views and see what people think. I have read so many articles with peoples opinions on how to catch employee’s out, how to measure people and basically it seems make employee’s life’s as miserable as possible all in the name of HR. My partner works for a large telecommunications company where they are completly inflexible and put the company 1st 100% of the time. If she requires to maybe finish an hour early for a doctors app then she will be required to work her lunch or parts of it over a week to repay the time. When the world cup was on they let every body go home 45 minutes early but everybody had to reduce their lunchtimes by 15 minutes per day for 3 days. My partners company is not alone and i know many other friends who work for companys who share a simular policy’s on this kind of stuff. Hence my partner will never give the company any more than the bare minimum required and will never work any later or earlier than her contracted hours. Please can somebdy explain why companys today feel they have to push their employee’s to the edge and extract as much work from them as possible when eventually it has the opposite effect and you end up with people realising that for the quite low salarys half of these companys pay it simply is not worth it. My company is completely flexible. they would never take holiday from me for anything else than an actual holiday, by that i mean a doctors app or waiting for the gas man. that kind of stuff. They treat us all the same and do not witch hunt us. People taking the mickey will get sacked and have been. funily we dont have an HR dept and the majority of our staff have been there for a very long time. we dont have a high turn over of staff and everybody works together as hard as they can. I am an external person and i start work at 6am at times and be home at 7-8pm at times, other occasions i may leave the house at 9am and arrive home at 4pm. What i am trying to say is surely the best way to manage people is to trust them. My last job were into measuring everything and reporting everything i spent more time drawing bar charts and writing reports, and having endless meetings discussing correct procedure that everybody struggled to actually get on with their main roles. there was a high turn over of staff and a de-motivated team. How we keep everybody motivated is a good bonus system which goes into one pot at the end of the year this gets split between all of us. managers, sales people and internal sales. we all get the same and everybody works hard because they know if 1 persons working really hard and they are not they dont really deserve the bonus and have also stopped there colleague from receiving as much as they could have. Work is important but good well-being and people wanting to be at work is also important. I can honestly say i love my job and enjoy going to work. I would never dream of taking the mickey because i am trusted. Maybe if companys treated their staff like people and not just numbers then half of the isssues discussed regulary on this website wouldn’t arise. Rules and regulations are important but so is a bit of give and take. I would appreciate any opinions on my post.
Andy Creedy