10 Reasons Why Good Employee Quit

Good employee is someone who does high quality job with responsibility and meets deadlines. Any company would love to hold onto this guy, but then why do such people quit? We all know that unexpected talent departure spells crisis for businesses across the globe. Despite well maintained HR cells, companies are still struggling with keeping their best employees from quitting. Only if they would understand and concentrate on keeping their employees challenged, engaged, valued, and rewarded both emotionally and financially, the chances of a good employee hitting the elevator are greatly minimised.

Here are ten most common reasons why we see good employees changing liability.

1. Bad manager:

As the saying goes, ‘people leave managers, people don’t leave jobs’. An evil boss can create hell and considering the fact that we spend more time in office than at our homes, a bad manager is worse than a bad spouse.

2. Money, Money, Money:

We all work for money, fame or power. And when we do not get the same its normal for us to feel upset and unsatisfied, the moment we find another opportunity we jump ship. At the end of the day we rate ourselves on the basis of how fat our purses are. Our work may keep us mentally stimulated but if the salary is too low, the motivation soon weans off. The rule is if you want a high quality employee, you normally have to pay a high quality wage too.

3. Recognition:

Money can’t buy happiness, human beings by nature love recognition and want to be appreciated. A pat on the back can work magic. There are cases where people stick to low paying jobs just because they feel that the work that they are doing is meaningful and they are appreciated and recognized, they feel they are part of the company and play an important role.

4. Management Stability:

If there are frequent senior management changes, it leads to distress and confusion amongst employees. They lose their sense of direction and feel lost about their own objectives.

5. Work life balance:

Over working a good employee never helps, at times they are so stressed that it leaves them with no personal life. You shouldn’t load your best employee with more work just because he is sincere. Reward of good work shouldn’t be more work.

6. Personal Growth:

Besides monetary benefit and recognition, the third biggest motivational factor is personal growth of a person. If a person is doing the same work day after day he is bound to become complacent and get into comfort zone, he needs to be challenged. Challenges lead to destruction of comfort zones and leads to personal skill and strength enhancement.

7. Vision:

Studies show 70% people of a company aren’t able to align their personal vision with the vision of the company. The big picture needs to be clear to all and sundry because if a motivated employee is able to align his personal vision with that of the company then that leads to the mutual growth of employee and company.

8. Promoting wrong people:

Hiring and promoting wrong people is bad for the company as the wrong person gets paid higher for doing bad work, while it leads to frustration and ultimately losing a good employee.

9. Job description change:

At times company has to change job roles of people according to the need of the hour, having said that the management take into consideration the passion of a good employee and place him accordingly, if work is done with passion it leads to benefits to the company and to the employee satisfaction as well.

10. Work Culture:

Since one spends more time at work place than at home, Work place becomes second home, so relationship with co workers and overall feeling towards the organisation has a huge impact. One foul mouthed employee can destroy the moral of many employees, so inter relationship between colleagues is of prime importance.

If an employee is well taken care of they rarely leave, and more importantly, they perform at very high levels.