| There are many reasons why good employees | | | | 5. Management constantly reorganizes, shuffles |
| quit, most are preventable. From my years of | | | | people around, and changes direction constantly. |
| experience as a consultant, I've identified a "Top | | | | 6. Management doesn't have or take the time to |
| Ten" list of reasons why people leave jobs: | | | | clarify goals and decisions. Therefore, it rejects |
| 1. Management demands that one person do the | | | | work after it was completed, damaging the |
| jobs of two or more people, resulting in longer | | | | morale and esteem of those who prepared it. |
| days and weekend work. | | | | 7. Management shows favoritism and gives some |
| 2. Management cuts back on administrative help, | | | | workers better offices, trips to conferences, etc. |
| forcing professional workers to use their time | | | | 8. Management relocates the offices to another |
| copying, stapling, collating, filing and other clerical | | | | location, forcing employees to quit or double their |
| duties. | | | | commute. |
| 3. Management puts a freeze on raises and | | | | 9. Management promotes someone who lacks |
| promotions, when an employee can easily find a | | | | training and/or necessary experience to |
| job earning 20-30 percent more somewhere else. | | | | supervisor, alienating staff and driving away good |
| 4. Management doesn't allow the rank and file to | | | | employees. |
| make decisions or allow them pride of ownership. | | | | 10. Management creates a rigid structure and then |
| A visitor to my website E-mailed me a message | | | | allows departments to compete against each |
| that said, "Forget about the "professional" | | | | other while at the same time preaching teamwork |
| decisions--how about when you can't even select | | | | and cooperation. |
| the company's holiday card without the President | | | | Interesting, isn't it, that all ten factors begin with |
| rejecting it for one of his own taste?" | | | | the phrase "Management.... |