>It sound like you misunderstood the question. I didn't ask you what
>you would do, I asked what the effects would be.
>
>You managed to talk completely around it. For a moment, are you able
>to consider the question, not from where you sit?
referring to my answer to:
>>I'm in agreement that some prioritizing needs to occur, but I wonder
>>what the effects of asking an employee to "justify his request" in
>>terms of motivation, and curiosity might be.
May be, I should be a little bit more explicit about the effect.
I think the most important effect is, that I get persons attracted, who
share the discribed setting. Even people who used to give their workforce
for compensation often give up this implicit agreement for another one,
where engagement yield support for personal growth. For a real buy-in of
the employee, s/he needs to know, that he makes a difference. Of course,
the company would still exist without him, but it would be a more or less
different company. Therefore it is very important, that every employee
develops his/her individual personality.
May be "justify" is not the right word, but buy-in is what happens, when
his/her personal motivation, curiosity, dream, what ever matters, is fully
respected and also - in a process I tried to discribe - supported. In an
early stage such support may be nothing but helping him/her to verbalise
the "justify the request" - help to see what matters, this is already part
of the recruitment process. Sometimes, there are conflicts in the values
between employee and company. Even the most careful recruitment process
cannot avoid this. This yields to a relatively high fluctuation in the
first two years, but up to then, it is settled.
Yes, I think I can consider the other side of the table, for that is where
I started. I was one of those "attracted persons". I don't know the
howmanyth generation. The company, I am working for was founded in 1867,
survived two world wars, has 13000 employees today who achieve a turnover
of about 5 billion DM. The company is still owned by the founders family.
May be this is the most visible effect.
But if you refer to the whole company I am working for with your phrase
"from where you sit", then I must admit that I would have difficulties to
consider the question properly from somewhere else.
I guess the bigger problem is my insufficient abilities in using the
english language - reading and writing. Sorry for any misunderstanding. At
least I hope that "what I would do" was also interesting for the one or
the other.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
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