It’s Not Always About Leaving Manager

Vishal Sareen

 

Private / corporate sector has extended the employment opportunities manifold. Often, there are chances that people start their career with one job and gets retire from the same company / organization. The culture, arena, salary, perks, policies, working environment, commutation etc. serves major role in that how long you would like to continue working at a place. On the other hand, people look for more opportunities based on respective priorities in case any of aforesaid provisions are missing. Also, a role hierarchy is available in public / private sector based on designation and these are formed to be followed to achieve the company goals. At times, people leave the company and look for new opportunity although all the before said facilities are available. The notion here is – “people leave the manager, not the company”.

 

It's not always that an employee leaves the manager but sometimes due to the processes followed as well. So, there are other considerable factors as well for an employee quitting an organization.

 

Chirag has 12 years of IT experience and this is his second time being in free pool. Here, free pool / bench time is the period when employee is not working on an assignment / project and hence not earning any money for the company. So, company needs to bear the employee’s expense of salary. Employee can utilize this time for new learning and enhancing the knowledge based on latest industry trends or company demand. This period gave Chirag a practical learning in behavior skill, decision making, people interaction, foresightedness, planning etc. You can see that these all the factors are very critical for the success of a project. Chirag experienced these skills with free mind when he was not actually on a project. 

 

Another aspect is Relationship building. Being skillful is great, but along with this you should create your visibility with other people / departments / projects. Management people should be aware of the skills you carry for better utilization. You need to be very clear about your requirement, your career path, location constraints, family perspective etc. Management will try to fit you wherever possible on the earliest, doesn't matter to them - you worked in a specific technology / domain continuously for 2 or 10 years. Whereas, the try should be to place you where you can again work for long period in your area of expertise / interest / better prospectus for you & company.

 

In such scenarios, the interaction with Management people will be for very short time but the kind of guidance / directions they should provide, at times – it’s not available. They won't even realize that the short-term interaction should be a nice experience; rather at times you will feel the cold war as well. The realization looks missing that the next time of meeting the same employee might come again in 2 / 4 / 6 years, so should be making this experience best & comfortable. This make it even more important to be clear and concise about what you are looking for. Specially in bigger organizations changing a project from one business unit to another is like changing a company altogether. You have to start understanding the people and building relationship from the scratch.

 

For any last-minute change expectation, you might hear about the term "escalation" / "no step back" as well. Due to this, fear of job loss will also be introduced to you. This is the real crucial time when you start loving an organization if such instances are handled with nice experience and satisfaction. 

 

Doesn't matter: -

 - what the salary is

 - what manager you are working with

 - what the company growth is 

   etc.

 

You never think about leaving the company when you start loving it and will contribute your best. Else you will start thinking - FOR A CHANGE.

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