Why do professionals who love their jobs still quit?

Respect

The main reason why people get demoralised and leave their company in spite of loving their job is because they feel that they are not getting the respect they deserve.

Every professional in the company has a different role to play. It is imperative that each is given a certain degree of respect in speech and action, irrespective of the kind of the role they play in the big picture. Loose talk, belittling one's role, making demeaning comments constantly, amounts to verbal abuse and is not something anyone would take lightly. It must be avoided at all costs.

While everyone might not be an over achiever superceding expectations, they are still fulfilling their role for the corporate machinery to move smoothly.

Money

Money may not be the only factor for a professional to quit an organisation. However, it may surely feature as one of the reasons. The most important way in which a company acknowledges the professional is by paying him. The relationship is a simple barter between execution (of work) and payment.

All of us at the end of the day, how much ever we may believe in the cause, work for the moolah we get. How much a company pays a professional indicates how much importance the company gives to that particular function thus defining the professional's role and value in the company.

Lack of freedom to innovate

The lack of freedom to be innovative affects those who continually celebrate their job and are raring to go. Locking up their minds and not allowing them to think of enterprising ways of executing tasks is a sure fire way of losing them.

Human investment

Companies are not legally bound to invest in the enhancement of professionals working for them. Many a management refrains from nurturing the careers of various employees as they are governed by fear of attrition.

Organisational myopia obstructs them from seeing that well- trained employees are more capable and willing to take control of their careers. As a result they need less supervision, which frees management for other more important tasks. Employees who love their work and also get to understand the business better have a double advantage and so complain less. They are also more satisfied and hence more motivated. Overall this leads to better management-employee relationship, which will help mobilise, an empowered workforce.

Realising potential

Without dedicated career enhancement programmes professionals tend to slip into a stagnating routine. Especially so with entreprising employees who are looking for expanding their role within the organisation.

The day an employee recognises that he is capable of much more than what the company is utilising him and is also unwilling to explore more possibilities, is the day he starts to look out for better opportunities.

MALINI SURYANARAYANAN

maalini.mds@cxknetworks.com