YES! You Can Sustain Your Employees’ Commitment!

The vast majority of employees do not seem to know of, or care about, their company’s mission, let alone its Vision. All they worry about is their pay check being on time each month.

From an immediate and objective point of view it would appear that this attitude is not only logical but also very intelligent. However, the next concern in your employees’ list is that their work be maintained, and this is where conflicts of interest start to creep up, since, on the one hand, employees are focused on the here and now, yet, for their commitment to be sustainable, employees must feel confident that their work will remain indefinitely.

There are many factors that do not allow the commitment of your employees to be sustainable. The most common and fundamental factor is a restrictive and tropophobic organizational structure, with little, if any, transparency, that does not inspire trust but a culture with the following mentality:

“Not worth cooperating for some one else to benefit.”

“My work is tedious and boring, I do not learn anything new, but as long as I receive my salary I´m O.K..”

“My job is too much for myself, should be paid more!”

“Why strive if my salary is fixed?”

“I don’t have any say about my work but as long as I receive my salary, I’m fine.”

“I Don’t feel that my work is socially useful but to get paid is enough for now.”