When an employee quits, the manager offers more money. That reinforces exactly what the employees suspected. The relationship is purely transactional. They believe that they are just another factor of production
CAREER BREAKS - HOW TO MANAGE THEM
Life happens. Career breaks happen. How to re-enter the workforce and what should employers do. Here are some inspiring stories of individuals who took a career break. Sometimes they chose to take a break. Sometimes the circumstances forced the break. The credit must also go to the employer who did not let a break in career ruin their future.
Most applicants are still writing their resumes for humans. They continue to prepare for interviews with humans. The reality is that from reading the resumes to testing and video interviews, we are dealing with algorithms.
You could say the pandemic caught the business world unprepared like deer in the headlight. The Great Resignation is also telling us how unprepared the employers are.
As businesses are slowly opening up the offices, the candidates are facing this tricky question in the job-interviews. Do you prefer to work from home or come to the office. How should you answer it.
In this book Rory Sutherland builds a case for magic and alchemy. In science, everything has one correct answer. Human behavior and choices are guided by context. Pain killers are more effective when they are effective. Savlon launched an antiseptic liquid that did not “burn” like their competitor Dettol. The consumer complained that Savlon was ineffective because there was no burning sensation. Read my review about Alchemy - a book I really enjoyed.
Here is a mail a reader sent to me.
“I work in a start-up manpower service provider, where I report to the director of the organisation. As we are flourishing, we have started constructing the hierarchy of the organisation …” and then …








