How to attract, keep and engage the best talents in your firm

• Posted by GAFM AFRICA January 24, 2018 - Filed in Business - #  #human resource  - 960 views

  Organisations love the safety of structures. We establish hierarchies, functions, divisions,teams, clusters and groups. We sort workers into classes. We designate bosses to oversee other bosses. We track revenue and customers channels. We count and group each expense.Everything is gathered and arranged into tidy haystacks of commerce.

  Yet this focus on organization inevitably clashes with human aspect of life.Most of us were taught to dutifully maintain the barrier between home and work. From the first burger we flipped, it's been ingrained in us that work is orderly, home is messy and the two never should meet.The world, thought, never works out quite that cleanly.

  The reality is we are human a term that differentiates us i a positive way from the inorganic world in which we spend our workdays.It's OK to spend time on our favorite websites when we should be focused on our work.It's normal to eat the donuts in the break room only when you're sure no one is looking. We naturally bring personal worries and issues into the workplace. We are untidy and cluttered. and it's all part of our evolutionary urges.Even in the confines of the supermarket aisles, we're moved to buy the chicken labeled as "free-range".It might not necessarily taste better, but it soother our desire for less restrictions.

  Deep down, we might even be jealous of the chicken(up until certain point, of course ).If we recognize the pull of the unstructured,why do most business leaders insist on a clear demarcation between personal and professional lives?Why do we segment employees' lives instead of seeing them as whole individuals?One plausible answer:fear.We all know how messy our lives can be.No self-respecting manager wants insert her-or himself into drama whirlwind.It's easier to demand that employees solve their personal issues on their own.The mandate always has been clear:Don't bring your personal baggage into the workplace.

  Another possible reason for failing to embrace the whole employee is even flattering.Many employers continues to see their employees to as widgets.When we examine employee survey responses, we find that employers too often view their employees as machines producing an hour of labor.

  And that hour of labor must be deployed for the organisation's benefit. In today's knowledge economy, however, it's quite   possible we've got it all wrong.Just how workers most fully contribute to a business' success might not fit within the rows on a time-sheet. Companies used to call all the shots, confident that employees would stay put for their entire career. No longer.We now live in the "Age of the Employee."Improving workers' condition