Whether you are the HR manager or the CEO of your company, managing employees is not something you can ignore. You need to be aware of the toughest employee management problems you could face at the office.
Drawing from my own experience, here’s a run through of the 4 toughest HR problems you could come across.
1.Negative Employees
Living life is all about perspective and some employees have a negative perspective of life. They hate their job, they hate the organization and they hate their life. This kind of negativity can spread among the other employees.
You have two options.
- Try to help the person see the better part of life in the office
OR - Remove the negative employee if his toxicity is affecting the productivity at office
Dealing with negative employees can be tough because quite often they are also quite effective at their job. However, the downside is their behavior is full of negativity. This is definitely not something you want to conveniently ignore.
2.Implement New Values
Change may be constant, but people are also resistant to change. Implementing new values or rules can be a hassle at the workplace.
- Everyone needs to be correctly informed of the new values or rules. I’ve seen miscommunication turning out to be a major problem when a company undergoes a change.
- It may take the employees a week or so to get accustomed to the new values (depending on the extent of the change). Give them that time. A mistake made by many organizations is to shove the new rules or values down the throat of the employees. Don’t make that mistake.
- The management has to be on board because they will help implement it.
3.When the Work Does not Get Done
Do you find that there is a growing backlog occurring at office? This could happen because of several reasons:
- Employees are not completing the required work. You need to create a system that makes the employees responsible. Assigning specific tasks and setting deadlines for employees using a management software is an excellent way to do this.
- There aren’t enough employees. A company that does not have a dedicated human resource team fails to realize that they are getting more work than the current set of employees can handle. Unfortunately, the management only realizes this when there is immense work pending.
4.Build a Good Team
Many organizations just pick names off the roster and put people together. This is the worst way to build a team. Employees’ rapport with each other is not taken into account and neither is their interest in the project.
It takes a bit off effort on part of the management, but taking the employees’ input when forming a team goes a long way to creating a good team.
In short, these are 4 of the major problems I’ve seen across organizations.
- Good ideas are poorly executed because of a bad team
- Work is not completed because employees get away from it or there aren’t enough employees
- Employees have a problem adapting to new values, rules or management
- Negative employees are conveniently ignored
Pull up your socks and get a dedicated HR team to solve your problems, or risk sinking your organization.
