Leader’s Excuses!

Well, you might have been used to hearing, employees giving an excuse for not doing the work on time but with by-gone recessionary times I have learned quite a few lessons from our managers. There are not just employees who are always at fault; our creative managers have worked up their mental muscles in giving kind excuses for the lay-offs or not incrementing the salary of an employee. How much ever, the stronger reasons the leader’s might give, it’s a proven fact that they are not always superior in their thoughts, they can go wrong in their calculations and they always have foolish reasons to not grant the leaves of an employee. The freelancing field of blogging which I am so deeply attached to requires me to attend lots of seminars and workshops in bigger companies and personally interact with employees, some have very good experiences with their bosses and yet some very poorly grading their managers for the lack of incentives, not granting them leaves or not listening to their problems and yet some were grieving about their past company experiences, how they were laid off without any structural reasons for forced quitting, etc.

I made up my mind to meet up couple of managers too, and listen to what their take was on the issue related, some were honest enough that they did lay off some employees out of no reason – just for bringing back the company from recessionary shocks yet some were bullish about blaming their employees for their forced termination. Many managers have unknown reasons, why their employees had to quit but majority of them gave me “Recession” as the main reason for lay offs happening in the company. If you are still not satisfied with what I have to say, then here are some more reasons to cheer yourselves and hate those managers more dutifully:

• Poor Management and planning
  In my experiences I have had met a few guys working in companies who had to force quit their companies for the orders given, both of them blamed the poor planning and execution of the processes in the company, no proper details were maintained and there were no written or set targets for them to achieve in a company. A project supposed to be completed the present month, gets done after months of its execution, how can that be? Such are the stories of disastrous management and the employees are finally targeted for the mistake.
• Expectations
  They are the most killing factors in a company to break down the trust between employees and the managers. Employees get the worth of their work, in terms of salary, feedback and recognition in the company, its only when managers create new expectations in their minds, do they feel the urge to grow in their companies by working even harder. The more the expectations, the more the pressure and in the end employees suffer cause they don’t know the game being played by their managers. Rather than offering new things, which doesn’t even exist in a company, why don’t managers look at what they still have to offer to their employees.
• Bring in Improvement
  Most of the times, even if companies have resources they don’t like to spend money on their employees by getting in some performance improvement programs or training them for polishing their skills and in the end they give the excuse that the company had no time to get in to such programs because of the ever increasing work pressure.

Many employees had been badly hit by the recessionary after effects and some are still railing in the same path. The companies with good management, planning and execution have proved to be successful in coming out of recession and they are the successful organizations giving their employees much needed support and looking at the welfare of the employees.