Running head: BAD BOSS EQUALS THEIR LOSS 1
BAD BOSS EQUALS THEIR LOSS
Assignment #1: “Work” Personal Essay
James Wilson
ENG 115- English Composition
Dr. Gail Summerskill
August 4, 2015
Bad Boss Equals Their Loss
Most people who can work do work. Of those, most spend more time at their jobs than they do with their family and friends, excluding sleeping time. When at work, I want to enjoy work and do my job to the best of my ability. Sometimes employees have managers who just want workers for the busy season. Even then, these seasonal employers don’t want their employees’ opinions and or suggestions on how to make the job more efficient and improve the quality with the same effort. These employers, like the ones I currently work for, only want me to come to work, remain quiet, and leave when the job is complete. Poor management like this ends up hurting the company and the employee. Poor management is meaningful to me because the company would excel if management were better, we would keep better workers, and in turn we would get bigger payouts.
First, management has to be in sync with its employees. The acceleration of the company depends on management. Management should be able to tell the morale of its employees by the way the employees are working. If your employees look run down and quality is declining for each hour or day, management should stop work and find out why morale is down and have an appreciation day more than once or twice a year. That improves morale because it shows that management is aware and cares. Management should also be approachable no matter what. An employee shouldn’t be ignored just because management is busy or has to set an appointment to be heard. Also, management should mean what it says. If employees tell management they will be at work at a certain time and they do not, they will be written up, but if managers promise a raise, they should be held to their word just like the employee. Managers have to remember that they need employees to allow the company to run. Managers should also be aware of their employees’ morale, easy to approach, and not mislead just to keep an employee. In all, a company that wants to excel first has to have good management.
Secondly, bad management pushes away good employees. Have you ever had a manager who always had a bad attitude, was always angry, but had a particular group of workers that were favorites to the managers and under the manager’s good graces? Well, I have. Managers like those push away good workers who know this work environment is not healthy and leave. Given that the economy is still struggling, a lot of managers use this to their advantage and work their employees as hard as they want, with no compassion other than to their favorite employees and the bottom line, just because there is always someone who could replace them. It would make more sense to invest in your good employees rather than fire, hire, and train again. Yes, proper training takes time and more money, but so does hiring an employee who you have to start all over with training again. The bottom line is that managers should invest in their employees with proper training and good reasoning skills. Managers would be able to weed out bad or weak employees and take more stress off the team leaders who have to deal with frequent new employees.
Lastly, better payouts come from excellent management. Management can meet with team leaders to discuss a plan to be more cost efficient with the same amount of people, and management has implement to the plan in a timely manner. That saving should go to employees who helped with the idea. Saving money is one of a company’s main objectives, but if a corporation does not use its best asset, which are the employees, how much more can it actually make without them? In North Carolina, we have seen many old, abandoned manufacturing buildings, and as we drove by them, and saw a brand new building with all the new bells and whistles not far down the street, we asked, “What happened”? What happened is that cutting costs causes the business to shut down, which is the same as referring to team leads and employees for better ideas, not using the ideas, and using the bottom line to overshadow employees and their pay to profit upper management.
In conclusion, poor management is meaningful because the company where I work would excel if management was better, so we could keep better workers and get bigger bonuses. I think business as a whole wants to do better and excel but doesn’t wish to put the time and resources into it, especially the time and resources towards the employees. Businesses want better employees but don’t want to pay the money and training to keep them. Lastly, companies don’t want to pay higher salaries and bigger bonuses for employees because it hurts the company’s bottom line. Nowadays getting your education and having a career, not a job, is critical. Most career jobs that have higher salaries, open communication with employees, and more training are found in the company where managers do their best to make the employees happy.