Greatest Challenge OF All

It is very commonly said that the most important resource any organisation has is human resource(is it a resource BTW).

I have, in a short span of time worked with several companies, in different industries, and all of them leading ones, supposedly the best ones around. And I loved being there.

But i have found each one of them not able to keep there employees engaged. Not many employees are thinking about there job as a role in a bigger system, working towards a goal. The passion for the work is missing. The willingness to run that extra mile is just not there.And i am talking TOP companies here.

And the ones who are engaged in with there company, working towards its goals, willingly, making there goal a subset of the company's goal, are the better performers, both in terms of numbers and in quality of work. They gain the hang of the business much quicker than the avg. non engaged employee, as he relatively spends far more time thinking about the business, and improvements.

These are the kind of people every organisation needs. Dedicated, capable employees, working in tune with the company's objectives.

These people are hard to find.

And i have seen people with these qualities are hard to retain, they jump jobs more frequently.

Companies are having a tough time understanding there expectations and responding to them.

Hiring smart people is tough, Keeping them engaged is tougher. And MONEY is not the only answer.