Throwing an employee out the company is very easy.
But you need to understand that getting a right employee into the organization is very hard. When an employee is very essential to the company and to his assigned task, we need to look forward for his consistency improvement.
The following steps might help to retain the candidate and make him a consistency performer.
1. Assign interesting task other than his work load.
2. Make sure that he communicates with others during this work and forget his personal thoughts.
3. Reward him for his work.
4. Arrange a trip and make him to organize those.
5. Create a competition among employee and make him to win the game.
6. Arrange a business trip and make him to be a successful man.
7. Make him to do extra work in his area of interest so that he will have more concentration on that and forget his personal issues.
8. The main thought process is he must concentrate on other things and forget his personal life.
This information is provided based on my knowledge. May be you try this.
Regards,
Rajendran R
Span Outsourcing Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
But you need to understand that getting a right employee into the organization is very hard. When an employee is very essential to the company and to his assigned task, we need to look forward for his consistency improvement.
The following steps might help to retain the candidate and make him a consistency performer.
1. Assign interesting task other than his work load.
2. Make sure that he communicates with others during this work and forget his personal thoughts.
3. Reward him for his work.
4. Arrange a trip and make him to organize those.
5. Create a competition among employee and make him to win the game.
6. Arrange a business trip and make him to be a successful man.
7. Make him to do extra work in his area of interest so that he will have more concentration on that and forget his personal issues.
8. The main thought process is he must concentrate on other things and forget his personal life.
This information is provided based on my knowledge. May be you try this.
Regards,
Rajendran R
Span Outsourcing Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
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Hi Shyamali,
Many good suggestions since I last visited this post. :D
Lovestruck does not mean, that a guy cannot work. I'm sure this is a temporary phase and will not last long.
Make a sheet of his performance since he is LOVESTRUCK, and sit with him for a while. Show him clearly how he used to perform his job and now how he is doing it? I think he will easily understand this.
COunselling may not help as the lady is not in your office and interfering in personal life may offend him. But performance based counselling can happen and if you want you can involve a professional for the same.
Sending for a business trip may work but not a sure shot solution, but talking to him without giving a warning or fear of losing his job.
Showing the doors is a complete NO NO, untill he is causing a real bad behaviour in organisation.
Talk and talk and talk, be friendly, be close to him, may get friendly with the lady as well.
DO share with us the results.
Cheers!!
Archna
From India, Delhi
Many good suggestions since I last visited this post. :D
Lovestruck does not mean, that a guy cannot work. I'm sure this is a temporary phase and will not last long.
Make a sheet of his performance since he is LOVESTRUCK, and sit with him for a while. Show him clearly how he used to perform his job and now how he is doing it? I think he will easily understand this.
COunselling may not help as the lady is not in your office and interfering in personal life may offend him. But performance based counselling can happen and if you want you can involve a professional for the same.
Sending for a business trip may work but not a sure shot solution, but talking to him without giving a warning or fear of losing his job.
Showing the doors is a complete NO NO, untill he is causing a real bad behaviour in organisation.
Talk and talk and talk, be friendly, be close to him, may get friendly with the lady as well.
DO share with us the results.
Cheers!!
Archna
From India, Delhi
Hey Shyamali,
Do let us know how things are working out. This was definitely an interesting topic and a challenging situation for a HR Manager. These situations help us measure our capabilities of resolving problems and see how successful we are in handling our Human Resources.
Anyway, hope he snaps out of it sooner rather than later!!
From Sri Lanka
Do let us know how things are working out. This was definitely an interesting topic and a challenging situation for a HR Manager. These situations help us measure our capabilities of resolving problems and see how successful we are in handling our Human Resources.
Anyway, hope he snaps out of it sooner rather than later!!
From Sri Lanka
Hi all,
Like many have said before it is a very interesting article.
On the matter this is my suggestion, a little late but hope it helps:
1) when you said that his performance has deteriorated please double check that it is really due to "lovestruck" and not any other factors. Sometimes the obvious may not necessary be the source of the problem.
2) This distraction is like any other distractions, eg. lost of a close family/relative, depression, financial difficulties, marital problems, children problems, maid problems, mother-in-law problems. So if we begin removing people with problems, very soon we will have to remove all the people in our organisation. So what we do, in my opinion, tell him straight at his face its effecting his job, give him time off to be with his distraction and TELL HIM DEFINATELY that it is CRITICAL he comes back to work focus and to pull his own weight. This no longer a just a "lovestruck" issues, it is DISTRACTION. And it should be handled just like any other distraction. Of course I am assuming that this "lovestruck" low performance has been persistance happening and it not just a 2-3 days dry period for him.
3) After the official response to him, that him out for Happy Hour, have a beer or two and have a buddy talk with him. Im serious, or the beer thing is just a figure of speech but im sure you know what i mean :wink: . For the fact, that you know the reason that it's "lovestruck" that is his problem, he must have mentioned it to you right? So that would mean that at the least you are in a good talking terms with him. So be that mentor and friend.
HR is about bring out people's potential and encouraging people to put in their best and to help them discover talents that somethings they themselves dont even know existed. This to me is what HR is all about. Hire and Fire, any Tom, Dick and Harry can do it, organisation dont need HR to do it. For us HR, its about reaching out, touching people and getting across to them.
My penny worth. Hope it helps.
Smiles n Cheers
From Malaysia, Johor Bahru
Like many have said before it is a very interesting article.
On the matter this is my suggestion, a little late but hope it helps:
1) when you said that his performance has deteriorated please double check that it is really due to "lovestruck" and not any other factors. Sometimes the obvious may not necessary be the source of the problem.
2) This distraction is like any other distractions, eg. lost of a close family/relative, depression, financial difficulties, marital problems, children problems, maid problems, mother-in-law problems. So if we begin removing people with problems, very soon we will have to remove all the people in our organisation. So what we do, in my opinion, tell him straight at his face its effecting his job, give him time off to be with his distraction and TELL HIM DEFINATELY that it is CRITICAL he comes back to work focus and to pull his own weight. This no longer a just a "lovestruck" issues, it is DISTRACTION. And it should be handled just like any other distraction. Of course I am assuming that this "lovestruck" low performance has been persistance happening and it not just a 2-3 days dry period for him.
3) After the official response to him, that him out for Happy Hour, have a beer or two and have a buddy talk with him. Im serious, or the beer thing is just a figure of speech but im sure you know what i mean :wink: . For the fact, that you know the reason that it's "lovestruck" that is his problem, he must have mentioned it to you right? So that would mean that at the least you are in a good talking terms with him. So be that mentor and friend.
HR is about bring out people's potential and encouraging people to put in their best and to help them discover talents that somethings they themselves dont even know existed. This to me is what HR is all about. Hire and Fire, any Tom, Dick and Harry can do it, organisation dont need HR to do it. For us HR, its about reaching out, touching people and getting across to them.
My penny worth. Hope it helps.
Smiles n Cheers
From Malaysia, Johor Bahru
Dear Shyamali,
I would just like to bring to your notice one real life situation in this regard from the field of sports where Team Work and success can be best associated.
In the last World Cup, Brasil had the best line up. Ronaldinho, is without doubt the Best Footballer. He didnot fire and every expert had the opinion that Brasil was not playing as a team as there were too many Stars.
After the World Cup, it came out that Ronaldinho use to spent the night with his French Model girlfriend and slept in the wee hours of the Morning.
It is absolutely true you simply cant replace a star as big as Ronaldinho(One of my all time favourite) and you cant also win a World Cup if the Stars have such an attitude and discipline.
Again, in the game of Cricket without doubt Australia is the best team, but look at there Team, they donot even bat an eyelid to drop players as big as Dean Jones, Michael Bevan, Mathew Hayden, Damien Martin. It is this system of not thinking of the star ahead of the team is what made them, what they are.
Again, it is not intelligence, brilliance, knowledge along which makes a person successful but hardwork, dedication, tenacity and commitment are essential.
Regards,
SC
From India, Thane
I would just like to bring to your notice one real life situation in this regard from the field of sports where Team Work and success can be best associated.
In the last World Cup, Brasil had the best line up. Ronaldinho, is without doubt the Best Footballer. He didnot fire and every expert had the opinion that Brasil was not playing as a team as there were too many Stars.
After the World Cup, it came out that Ronaldinho use to spent the night with his French Model girlfriend and slept in the wee hours of the Morning.
It is absolutely true you simply cant replace a star as big as Ronaldinho(One of my all time favourite) and you cant also win a World Cup if the Stars have such an attitude and discipline.
Again, in the game of Cricket without doubt Australia is the best team, but look at there Team, they donot even bat an eyelid to drop players as big as Dean Jones, Michael Bevan, Mathew Hayden, Damien Martin. It is this system of not thinking of the star ahead of the team is what made them, what they are.
Again, it is not intelligence, brilliance, knowledge along which makes a person successful but hardwork, dedication, tenacity and commitment are essential.
Regards,
SC
From India, Thane
Dear Shyamali,
Relax and take it cool. Personally, going by your article, i don't see it as a serious issue. So long as his affair with someone doesnot adversely effect his performance, does not deter the office decorum and if his affairs are not to the extreme, i guess it is fine. He should be a grown uip man and should know the limit what and what not not to do in while in the office.
However, as suggested by many, if you feel that he is going beyond the limit of the office norms and code of conduct, perhaps, talking face to face should do some good. He should be able to understand the bitter consequences of not adhereing to the set office decorum and code of conduct in the office. You could also talk to his girl and advise how to behave in the office if her conduct is not tenable.
Cheers and i am sure you will be successful in dealing with such matters!
From Bhutan
Relax and take it cool. Personally, going by your article, i don't see it as a serious issue. So long as his affair with someone doesnot adversely effect his performance, does not deter the office decorum and if his affairs are not to the extreme, i guess it is fine. He should be a grown uip man and should know the limit what and what not not to do in while in the office.
However, as suggested by many, if you feel that he is going beyond the limit of the office norms and code of conduct, perhaps, talking face to face should do some good. He should be able to understand the bitter consequences of not adhereing to the set office decorum and code of conduct in the office. You could also talk to his girl and advise how to behave in the office if her conduct is not tenable.
Cheers and i am sure you will be successful in dealing with such matters!
From Bhutan
hi!
I wud like to add another thing that while talking to him, make him realise that his career will also get ruined if he is not able to strike a balance between his personal and profesionl life. I mean dont just say that organisation will suffer .... make him realise that his professional life will suffer if he is not able to perform.
Kanika
From India, Delhi
I wud like to add another thing that while talking to him, make him realise that his career will also get ruined if he is not able to strike a balance between his personal and profesionl life. I mean dont just say that organisation will suffer .... make him realise that his professional life will suffer if he is not able to perform.
Kanika
From India, Delhi
Shyamali,
Your employee is suppose to love the job responsiblities and work station and you are suppose to love the performance of the employee. These two things are common to both of you and organisation also loves you. So need not worry about the love affairs of the employee instead search for some other profile while mentoring him to get into the track. If employee is suffering from illhealth and any severe personal problems we can consider as a special case, but for love affairs, alchoholics, drug adicts you need not to spent your organisational time. what do you say?
Regards
Kvrkhrm
From India, Vijayawada
Your employee is suppose to love the job responsiblities and work station and you are suppose to love the performance of the employee. These two things are common to both of you and organisation also loves you. So need not worry about the love affairs of the employee instead search for some other profile while mentoring him to get into the track. If employee is suffering from illhealth and any severe personal problems we can consider as a special case, but for love affairs, alchoholics, drug adicts you need not to spent your organisational time. what do you say?
Regards
Kvrkhrm
From India, Vijayawada
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