maybe. I read an article a while ago that I thought I agreed with but upon reflection, perhaps not so much. The article was a fairly accurate description of companies who continuously expound on how employees are the most important company asset. Then, when the economy or bad business practices put the company in financial difficulties, the first thing to go is the employees. How can an organization actually believe that its employees are it’s best asset and then when things get tough start handing out pink slips?
Well, perhaps it all depends on how you define valuable. When a company says its employees are it’s most valuable asset the assumption, made by the employees, is that the current individuals who make up the body of employees are of value. Another assumption the employees make is that the company would never get rid of it’s most valuable asset. Sadly I believe the employees are wrong in both of these assumptions in too many cases.
Many organizations believe that a valuable resource is an expendable and disposable yet renewable resource. In this case when the company starts talking about its valuable resources and tough economic times you might want to dust off your resume. In tough economic times like today we really need to be careful about our assumptions and definitions.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
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