Career Management
Signs of Dysfunction Company and How to Solve It
Many companies create a work environment that makes being there unseemly experience. They are caused by actual physical environment or by the people in the company—from the executive management team all the way down—seem to be filled with devious characters. Let’s see what signs that a dysfunction company have.
The first thing is that when you find that employees fight against each other. It is difficult to get help from other employees and departments, or even worse they actively try to sabotage your projects to make you look bad. This is surely stressful. Things may get worse when it is difficult for any worker to be promoted. Some companies are just not built to perform regular promotions. In these cases, management needs to make up for the lack of real promotions with bigger salary and additional numbers behind workers’ job titles.
Are You a Good Manager?
On the day when you are promoted as a manager, you will be very proud and have more responsibilities at the same time. Managers are usually a key component to rather or not a person is happy at work. But have you ever considered whether you are a good or a bad manager?
A good manager knows that their employees need a break and save the red alert situations for real emergencies. So avoid creating artificial stress by driving up the urgency of every project. A good manager also gives timely and regular feedback. They frequently and publicly praise employees' work when it is good and give private feedback on how to improve when it needs improvement. Managers should not wait for yearly reviews to state progress or blow up at employees when things have been going downhill for months.
Are You at the Right Work Place?
When you don’t feel comfortable at your work place, something must have gone wrong. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with the company. But it may not be the best place for you. Ask yourself whether you are doing what you love or even what you are good at? Is this a creative outlet for your talents and passions or does it just pay the bills?
There is something to be said of being proud of what you do and where you work. If you hate what your company does then your only motivation for working there is the money. You will have no enthusiasm and will not care about anything but your take-home pay. If the money itself is not so good, then your motivation for the job will be minimal at best. On the other hand, if you believe the products or services your company produces are really great or are helping benefit the world, then you will have extra incentive to go to work every day.
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