Use And Throw Of Knowledgeable Employees By Management

Hello All,
Needs your valuable suggestions for the below mentioned subject "Use and throw of knowledgeable employees by management"
Is it right to treat knowledgeable employees like use and throw by management after successful task? By doing these company gaining or loosing anything ?
Please share your experience and how to avoid such things in company?
Regards,
Ashish

Dear Ashish,

Well, your query appears to be for the IT industry. However, please clarify in what context you have asked this question. Are you a professional or a student? Are you from the IT/BPO/KPO industry? Are you doing study or research of any kind? Are you the affected employee? Are you talking about some "Lala company where employees are removed at the whims and fancies of the owner?

Optimum utilisation of resources if the mainstay of the business. Resources could be physical resources or human resources. To gain something we have to get rid of something. However, we have to measure the pros and cons and then take a decision. While removing employees, many business owners do not bother to calculate the loss that it inflicts on their business. Cost of loss of opportunities, cost of loss of brand image etc they do not taken into account. For them, the removal of employees is just an accounting exercise.

Ok...

Dinesh Divekar

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

It is not a desirable practice to make use of the skills of an employee and once the organisation achieves its objectives, discard the employee. If the services of employee are no more required, he may informed in advance.

Hello Dineshji,

I am Hr Professional in one of leading MNC firm , my question is not related with me , i have seen one old experience person of age 52, struggling with management regarding above mentioned subject , he is working with leading MNC of india, i don't want to raise the name of that organization. so this query not related with any Lala company, you will find same cases in Reliance, Birla, TCS, Infosys and any more Big MNC companies.

We can find lots of people struggling with same issues, because in ONLY big companies you will find that kind of talent who can use that kind of persons, Lala company does not have that kind of talent who can use and throw them , i am talking about reality,

Even sir you are agree with above mentioned problems as per your experience,

In hindi " Project Khatam chalo iska kuchh karte hai, bethei bethei kya Karega " like that kind of statements in Annual General meetings, after Management politics person has to leave the company in any way.

Needs solutions for the same sir, You valuable suggestions will expected

Thanking you,

Regards

Dear Ashish,

For every individual, how to stay "relevant" is a challenge. For this one has to upgrade himself or herself constantly. "Pyramid" always gets narrow at the top. Therefore, the competition gets tougher at the top than they should have understood while they were at the base of this pyramid i.e. during their youth. My observations about middle-aged persons are as below:

a) Many of them did not upgrade their knowledge beyond their technical or functional sphere. Business runs on finance. Many do know the basics of finance. On the contrary, those who were in finance never tried to understand the operations.

b) They relied on their company to grow. They did not invest even 5% of their earnings the learning.

c) Many of them lack soft skills that they should have developed long ago. The way they speak or carry themselves is incompatible with their position. Many top executives are unable even to write a single-page business letter on their own!

d) For many of them computers are glorified typewriters. Though they brandish their smartphones, they just use the basic features of the mobile phone i.e. talking. Computers or laptops or smartphones are the instruments that help improve their personal productivity they do not understand.

e) Many of them did not plan their career during their youth. As said earlier, how to stay relevant is a perennial challenge. They should have read Marshall Goldsmith's famous book "What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful" long ago.

f) Famous company Microsoft has been coming up with an upgraded version of their product i.e. Windows. What do you think without newer and newer versions of Windows, could Microsoft stay relevant? Today, notwithstanding all this Google is challenging its very existence. The same thing happens to us also. We have to upgrade constantly.

g) Next is that many of them are yet to come to the terms of changed social or economic scenario of the 21st century. They behave as if they are in the 20th century. They continue to gloat over past achievements. These achievements were relevant during those times but not any longer.

Lastly, it is also one's fate. About 1-2 years ago Google acquired Motorola at a hefty price of 12.5 billion USD. After the acquisition, Google declared in last October that it will lay off 4,000 employees. In the last month, it declared it will lay off 1,200 more employees. Google had paid far higher value than market value to Motorola for its patents. After all who developed those patents? Motorola employees. Now, these very employees may find that after acquisition they are being laid off! Do you think Google will show mercy to these employees because they developed patents? No way!

Ashish, tomorrow if you were to start the business, you will also weed out effete employees. One's thinking depends on which side of the fence one is.

Ok...

Dinesh Divekar

Ver well said Dinesh. I totally agree with him. The employees need to constantly replenish their skills in knowledge based industry.
B.Saikumar
HR & Labour Law advisor
Mumbai

Your post remind me of a discussion with my mentor, on how should we make ourselves redundant at our jobs. Especially, before we are fired. This sounds strange, but its true. Tasks and responsibilities will continue to change. Only our agility can help retain a career .
I agree with Dinesh, in IT sector, talents are hired for the project. If the skill-sets is too niche , they are released from the job on project completion . Talent pool are good only for the generic skills. Putting-on-Bench is rare these days.
I am sure you will find better jobs where an higher level acumen would be required. Wish you all the best !

Dear Ashish,

Mr.Dinesh has beautifully explained how the once so called knowledgeable people become irrelevant in organisations with the passage of time and get jettisoned eventually because of their failure to keep abreast of trends in changes.Knowledge is similar to the flowing waters of an ever green river maintaining the continuity of the flow and confluence with the sea in order to take a different form only to be back to the original but diffused everywhere. Years ago, somewhere I read as having said by Peter F Drucker that efficiency leads to insubordination and eventually ends up in incompetence.( exact statement not in my memory).In the words of Robin Sharma, "There is a cure for aging that no one talks about.It's called learning."But, people in the middle level of their career normally stuck there complacent refusing to learn further.That's why middle level managers are slowly getting eliminated from organizational chart now a days.The examples cited by Mr.Dinesh are very apt and prove Drucker's epigrams ---- " management has no power but only responsibility".and "Golden fetters do not strengthen the company".In the general election soon after the World War II, the people of Great Britain did not vote Winston Churchil who brought victory, back to power but only Clement Attlee, a better administrator.

True, the metaphor of the rivers given by Mr.Umakanthan is vrey apt and I just want to add a little that the seniors shall be like our rivers which are ancient but always renew their waters with fresh water gushing in from the mountains.
B.Saikumar
HR & Labour Law Advsior
Mumbai

Hello Eeveryone,
according to me it is not right to make use of skill of an employee and then discard him/he,.if you keep on doing this then nobody will agree to enter into your company because today's era is of collaboration, and employee satisfaction is very much necessary and it is i proved only, when you make the employee feel that he is being treated as a member of your company not just "USE AND THROW" of his skill.....
thanks
REGARD
AMANJOT