Why Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed to Do..

By: Gireesh Sharma
Date: June 17th, 2008
Posted in: Human Resources | No Comments »

The interesting title of this post in indeed title of a book Why Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed to Do and What to Do About It by Ferdinand F. Fournies, where he reveals the findings of a research done on this subject.

The reasons that he listed are:

1. They Don’t Know Why They Should Do It
2. They Don’t Know How To Do It
3. They Don’t Know What They Are Supposed To Do
4. They Think Your Way Will Not Work
5. They Think Their Way Is Better
6. They Think Something Else Is More Important
7. There Is No Positive Consequence to Them for Doing It
8. They Think They Are Doing It
9. They Are Rewarded for Not Doing It
10. They Are Punished for Doing What They Are Supposed To Do
11. They Anticipate a Negative Consequence for Doing It
12. There Is No Negative Consequence to Them for Poor Performance
13. Obstacles Beyond Their Control
14. Their Personal Limits Prevent Them from Performing
15. Personal Problems
16. No One Could Do It

[Source: http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/4255-9.html]

Many of the issues discussed above are related to employee engagement level at the job. It is important for the leadership in any organizational to align the objectives of employees to its corporate objectives. Individual Employee goals should be linked with corporate objectives related to finance, customer, internal improvements & other strategic parameters. This will ensure that employees are engaged in productive tasks most of the time while they are at job. For medium to large organization it can be done only with help of a Organization Alignment Tool, which can help you to create a focused organization: all looking in the same direction.