Class: Human Resource Management
Professor: The major issue faced by HR managers are under performing employees and over performing employees...
Class: reading ET,browsing their laptops,sleeping, doing pretty much everything but listening. Because, come on, HR is the mother of all the things boring in this world!
Professor: There are many ways to deal with unsder performing employees: Salary cuts, training or separation.
Class: Still doing the same things mentioned before
Professor: The real dilemma comes with the over performing employee. How do u deal with them? If we maintain the status quo, his morale will decrease....
Class: ........
Professor: You see, there are two ways to deal with this problem. First is to increase the amount of work he is doing. Second way is to increase the variety of work he is doing.i.e, increase his responsibility! For example, if he is area sales manager, give him another area to manage...
At this point, a naive student gets curious. He is a chronic dilbert fan, you see...
Naive student: Um, We will be paying him more for this additional responsibility, right??
Professor: Whaat? That's crazy talk! Money isn't the only motivator for the employees. They dig this responsibility stuff! It's a prestige issue!
Naive student: Let me get this straight. When an employee's performance exceeds expectations, our master plan is to give him more and more work such that his performance will fall back to our expectations??
Professor: Well, when u put it in that way....
Student: I feel soooo EVIL..........
p.s: The sad part is that this stuff is actually written in the text books.....
