{"id":1028,"date":"2018-07-18T05:49:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:29:28","slug":"stop-viewing-employees-purely-as-a-necessary-production-cost-and-youll-start-making-head-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/rwc-blog\/stop-viewing-employees-purely-as-a-necessary-production-cost-and-youll-start-making-head-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Viewing Employees Purely As A “Necessary Production Cost” And You’ll Start Making Head-way"},"content":{"rendered":"

It staggers me to see how many particularly older employers tend to have a narrow view of the value of employees – an attitude which is generally restricted to employees being a “necessary evil” (i.e. necessary cost) of running a business. The penny still hasn’t really dropped with these employers that the people who they employ are in fact the most valuable resource that they have – beyond the value of stock and other physical assets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for employers with this mindset, if they continue to hold employees in such little regard, they’re likely to experience continuing high employee turn-over. No-one wants to work with people who are unable to assign value to others\u00a0 beyond the measurement of “financial cost” .<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather, in this day and age, employees are interested in working “with” employers to achieve common objectives – not “under” or “for” employers.<\/strong><\/span> There’s a big difference in these perspectives. The holistic value that you show\/ communicate to employees will be returned in spades in the form of heightened productivity, willingness to contribute ideas, positive attitude…and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

My advice to employers is see and nurture the “people qualities” in employees far more so than simply view employees as a necessary cost of operating a business.<\/strong><\/span> Your relationships with employees will blossom as a result; and the culture that develops will become the primary driver of productivity\/ organisation goals being achieved.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It staggers me to see how many particularly older employers tend to have a narrow view of the value of employees – an attitude which is generally restricted to employees being a “necessary evil” (i.e. necessary cost) of running a business. The penny still hasn’t really dropped with these employers that the people who they employ are in fact the most valuable resource that they have – beyond the value of stock and other physical assets. Unfortunately for employers with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realworldconsulting.kiwi\/rwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}