A human among the resources

I am in the industry for more than a year now. I have had my share of experiences - All kinds. It is human only to share your experiences with people you know. Sharing your experiences is a great human trait as it multiplies your experiences and enriches you.

So this post is about distributing some of my wealth. In my Industry, employees are called resources. The rationale behind this is to calculate the amount of work possible by the available resources (employees). It is understandable as any business would like to know of its capabilities.

But if you put the Math aside, ultimately every business deals with human beings. Hence, assuming that X no of employees will always do Y amount of work is absurd. Most of the humans will work for some reason or another. In an ideal environment an employee should work for the success of company. He will only do so when he is convinced that the success of company will lead to his success.

This theory is not difficult to assimilate and has been reiterated by many management gurus. However, to my surprise, I don’t have even one incident from the plethora that I have gathered over this period, which exemplifies the above case.

Companies these days, very rarely try to take the stakeholders in confidence before bringing any change. Surely, it is difficult. And that is why it can act as a game changer if understood by some player in the game.

It will be great to see, when sales team will start rejecting lucrative offers because they deem it unfit for employee morale. It will be great to see a human among the resources.