Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Staff Turnover Problem

In developing countries, the main challenging for managers to response with timely manners is frequent staff turnover. This problem makes the workplace unproductive. The staff turnover problem is created by many root causes.
One of many facts setting the staff turnover is ‘mismanagement. In developing countries, many managers are educated by a few of business education and this leads to workplace problems such as lack of effectiveness and efficiency. Sometimes, the managers used to assign limited capacity to extensive job and resulted unfeasibly workforce. Next problem is that managers ignore motivating the staff and order the staff behind their desk. The lack of motivating destroys synergetic team work and it result that the staffs assume themselves as hiring hands. Another most and common cause creating the staff turnover problem is ‘interpersonal problem’. This problem makes the staffs to decide ‘fight or flight’.
These above causes generate many unwanted effects for the managers. The mismanagement triggers the ineffectiveness and the work goals are not achieved within timeframe planned earlier. In addition, the mismanagement and unclear job descriptions produce complicated communication lines such as reporting systems and misunderstandings such as bossy, disobediences. The lack of motivation affects the workplace to become bureaucratic machinery and the staffs tend to shrink from their responsibilities. Many resource staffs such as white collar staffs suffer from brain pain. Another key cause, interpersonal problems makes many effects such as conflict of interest, breaking teams, non coordination, etc among the staffs. In the workplace collectivism is damaged and individualism developed. As results, every staff takes into account his/her personal wellbeing and disregard others’ affairs. Consequently, the work teams are broken and friendly work environment is dead.
Obviously, the staff turnover problem is serious key crisis in the developing countries and the urgent issues for the manager encountering. If the managers fail to handle the problem properly, the organization will have to dissolve sooner or later.

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