Devoted to Managers and those that seek to improve their management skills

Businesses exist for the purpose of serving human wants and needs, people don't exist for businesses. Nonetheless people and businesses need each other.

Specifically employees need jobs, satisfaction, opportunities and fulfillment on the job. Businesses on the other hand need the ideas, insight, input and efficiency of their people.

When these things aren't operating back and forth between the business and the individual, usually both will become victims of the breakdown. The exception is the truly poor employee, in which case they need to be gotten rid of asap!

Here are four things to look for to see if there is a breakdown in your business:

1. Good employees withdraw…through a lot of absenteeism or simply by quitting. If you have high turnover with good employees, you need to look closely at your entire business culture to see why it is happening.

2. They remain on the job but psychologically withdraw by becoming passive, indifferent and apathetic. If your employees simply don't care at all, and you know that they have been great employees in the past, again you need to find out what is causing this attitude to go all throughout your business.

3. They resist by cutting back on their output, deceit or outright sabotage. These types of things can come from lack of communication or possibly having a bully boss that results in employees not wanting to or being able to express themselves and how things could improve.

4. They attempt to climb the management ladder to escape to a better job. This sounds good when you first hear it, but we're talking about something a little different here. We're talking about the majority are not so much wanting to advance and take on greater responsibility, but rather their major purpose is to escape the current job, not to make a greater contribution.

If these things are happening in your company or department, take a thorough inventory of the causes and remedy them and face and address quickly. Left alone they can be the downfall of everything you're trying to accomplish. Just remember that a business exists for serving people, not the other way around.