How companies undermine their employees without even thinking!!

Every working day, we all come across individuals complaining about their employers. They moan about everything form the coffee to their colleagues, and sometimes they complain about the actual work itself!! However, companies sometimes do themselves no favours when it comes to building and managing their relationships with their own staff. They always seem able to completely disregard the feelings of their own employers on a day to day basis.

So if you have ever had the displeasure of being unhappy at work and moaning about your employer, then you will identify with some of the common errors made below:

• Adding another level of management because people aren’t doing what you want them to do.
• Appraising the performance of individuals and provide bonuses for the performance of individuals and complain that you cannot get your staff working as a team.
• Failing to create standards and give people clear expectations so they know what they are supposed to do, and then wonder why they fail.
• Creating hierarchical, permission steps and other roadblocks that teach people quickly their ideas are subject to veto and wonder why no one has any suggestions for improvement.
• Asking people for their opinions, ideas, and continuous improvement suggestions, and fail to implement their suggestions or empower them to do so. Better still - don’t even provide feedback about whether the idea was considered.
• Finding a few people breaking rules and company policies and chastise everybody at company meetings rather than dealing directly with the rule breakers.
• Making up new rules for everyone to follow as a means to address the failings of a few.
• Failing to address behaviour and actions of people that are inconsistent with company policies and procedures.
• Asking employees to change the way they are doing something without providing a picture of what you are attempting to accomplish with the change.

From personal experiences, the last three are most common I have come up against, and I feel are certainly very frustrating as an employee!!