Human Resouces for business owners

If you're losing good staff, look to their immediate boss.

• 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. They dig their heels in and slow down, by doing only what they are told to do and no more. The employee omits 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, suspicious, pushy and 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 doesn't.

The immediate boss could therefore be the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. 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.

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

Have you identified the following in your Business?

• Low Staff Morale?
• Low Productivity?
• Disciplinary Issues?
• Lack of proper business processes?
• Dealing with difficult employees?
• Costly overheads?
• Lack of HR resources?
• Lack of HR Strategies?

If you answered Yes to more than 2 of the above questions then you will benefit a great deal from a ChilliHR Membership.

By signing up as a member you will:
Improve Employee Relations, utilize best practices, have sound disciplinary advice, Case Law Research, Grievance handling, Labour Cost Model, Remuneration Model and ensure labour law compliance.

You can reduce your Human Resources operational cost by as much as 50%