Not gold or diamond, not money or commodity, employees are a company’s greatest asset. A former CEO and chairwoman of Xerox Corporation, Anne M. Mulcahy said that. As an addition, they are the company’s competitive advantage. If a company wants to attract and retain the best; provide employees with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission. However, Bruce Perry, founder of Neurosequential Network, said that employees are widely mismanaged by their bosses.
Perry the psychiatrist and neuroscientist noted that employees’ cortexes are central to a company. Cortexes are part of the brain handling language, thinking, reflection, and planning. It looks sophisticated but unfortunately the cortex is highly sensitive. Perry said that the cortex is exquisitely sensitive, so stressing out your people is really shooting yourself in the foot. Liz Ryan, CEO and founder of Human Workplace said an employee;s job is to give his or her best work every day. A manager’s job is to give the employee a good reason to come back to work tomorrow.
Hit by pandemic, volatile market, and Russia invasion of Ukraine, both company and employees are equally in a broken glass situation. Almost all business sectors suffer the pressure. With the new Omicron variant, the pandemic seems endless.
