a. Lack of leadership and direction by upper management
b.Poor communication between all levels of the organisation
c.No clear job responsibilities and good HR practices
Hi Omob, my first question before answering is, what are your objectives for the specific job function/title that you currently have? Are you just an employee or part of management? The reason I ask is that if you are just an employee and has no say to any changes for the company then you might as well find another job. However, if you are part of management and is seriously in need of alternatives and opportunities to better your organization then here are my suggestions.
for questions:
1) lack of leadership and direction from upper management-well here if you are part of management and is higher enough in the hierarchy levels you must look at the root cause of why there is a lack of leadership? Obviously there is some kind of leadership but its not enough to lead employees to the direction your company has envision themselves right? Most of the time lack of leadership stems from not knowing or having a clear and concise vision and objectives of the company. Leadership are learned and normally some people ask (WIFM-what is it for me?). Offer a reward system of some sort i.e. if your employee meets productivity goal for the week or the month treat them with a donuts for breakfast on payday something.
2) poor communication between all levels of the organization- this happens on any organization but mostly you have to have a good foundation for the channels of communication. Meaning, if leadership from upper management is in line, communication throughout all levels of management will slowly become part of the process. Using emails to communicate what the objectives are sometimes can lead to poor communication as well because its not a two way communication.
3) no clear job responsibilities and good HR practices- again this is present to almost all companies at one point or another or still in existent to some but job responsibilities, title codes, pay grades are the responsibility of HR. My suggestion is to hire a subject matter expert/consultant on Human Resources or even do a benchmarking data analysis on your key issues and look at how other companies whether its your industry or other industry to look at how companies like yours are tackling and improving as well as implementing certain philosophy or methodology such as Six Sigma or ISO 9000 to help them create a strategic plan that aligns with its stakeholders and shareholders vision.
I hope this helps a little bit. It could take hours to discuss this issue.
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Hi Omob, my first question before answering is, what are your objectives for the specific job function/title that you currently have? Are you just an employee or part of management? The reason I ask is that if you are just an employee and has no say to any changes for the company then you might as well find another job. However, if you are part of management and is seriously in need of alternatives and opportunities to better your organization then here are my suggestions.
for questions:
1) lack of leadership and direction from upper management-well here if you are part of management and is higher enough in the hierarchy levels you must look at the root cause of why there is a lack of leadership? Obviously there is some kind of leadership but its not enough to lead employees to the direction your company has envision themselves right? Most of the time lack of leadership stems from not knowing or having a clear and concise vision and objectives of the company. Leadership are learned and normally some people ask (WIFM-what is it for me?). Offer a reward system of some sort i.e. if your employee meets productivity goal for the week or the month treat them with a donuts for breakfast on payday something.
2) poor communication between all levels of the organization- this happens on any organization but mostly you have to have a good foundation for the channels of communication. Meaning, if leadership from upper management is in line, communication throughout all levels of management will slowly become part of the process. Using emails to communicate what the objectives are sometimes can lead to poor communication as well because its not a two way communication.
3) no clear job responsibilities and good HR practices- again this is present to almost all companies at one point or another or still in existent to some but job responsibilities, title codes, pay grades are the responsibility of HR. My suggestion is to hire a subject matter expert/consultant on Human Resources or even do a benchmarking data analysis on your key issues and look at how other companies whether its your industry or other industry to look at how companies like yours are tackling and improving as well as implementing certain philosophy or methodology such as Six Sigma or ISO 9000 to help them create a strategic plan that aligns with its stakeholders and shareholders vision.
I hope this helps a little bit. It could take hours to discuss this issue.
References :
From past experiences and learning teams discussions throughout my MBA classes.
HR's not that good, w/all them problems. are they trying to see how many people can do 10 different jobs for the price of one? thats a common practice today. 25yrs ago, learn a new part of dept. get a 10 cent raise.
today they want you to do it for free, and call it job security………
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