{"id":3572,"date":"2018-09-11T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:38:01","slug":"how-to-demotivate-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2018\/09\/how-to-demotivate-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Demotivate Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the pleasure of working for organizations of nearly all size and shape, ranging from solo ventures to 3-member teams to a few hundred employees, and all the way up to 30,000+ soldiers marching to a common tune.<\/p>\n<p>Since my work has revolved around <em>Services<\/em>, the one thing that has been common to these stints is People. And, having seen a wide variety of industries and functions, I&#8217;ve had a ring-side view of how organizations motivate &#8211; and <em>demotivate<\/em> &#8211; their most important resource.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the ways I&#8217;ve encountered in my journey, that result in employees being demotivated&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not providing clarity on what constitutes &#8220;success&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Waiting for the annual appraisal cycles to provide much-needed feedback and course-correction to team members<\/li>\n<li>Playing favorites within the team, or hiring old favorites from your past employment, with little regard for competence<\/li>\n<li>Not creating a strong Reward &amp; Recognition program to encourage performance achievement<\/li>\n<li>Hiring outsiders at senior levels (and at commensurate pay hikes), at the cost of ignoring equally-competent loyal employees<\/li>\n<li>Offices offering no transportation options \/ no cafetarias (especially relevant for large enterprises and those having poor access)<\/li>\n<li>Managers promoting unqualified resources for positions that require technical competence, without including the necessary checks and balances (this one is especially demotivating for those who <em>are<\/em> competent!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to add, any one who is reading this and cares about doing it right, should do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an entrepreneur, build your organization the right way, and don&#8217;t compromise by hiving off &#8220;people management&#8221; to some trainee or junior resource. If you are a mid-level manager, watch out for such danger signals in your own enterprise, and try to compensate for what you see around you. If you are\u00a0in a position of leadership, you can take measures to undo the damage this causes to your staff.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, no matter how long you&#8217;ve traveled in the wrong direction, you can always take a u-turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the pleasure of working for organizations of nearly all size and shape, ranging from solo ventures to 3-member teams to a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,9,14],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life","tag-quality","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}