5 Reasons WHY Employees Left a Company

Understanding your employees thinking nowadays is crucial to retain top talents in your organization. What's the reason behind for them to press the "Resign" button? Detecting it early and replacing it with a "Stay" button before it is too late.

Please be mindful that the generation now is different, their thinking is different, their feeling towards a job is very much different. As such, employers or top management should find out the determining factor of employees going to resign. Let's look at the reasons...

1. Better prospects
   No doubt, this is the most common reason to leave. We can't prevent someone to leave for good, either because of higher pay or better position offered elsewhere. Correct? True or not, some use this just as an excuse, rather than the reason, to resign. He/She may leave because of other reasons listed below...
   
   
2. Lack of Recognition / Respect from top management
   Sometime recognition or respect from bosses treated as an "parameter" to gauge the value of an employee for an organization. For top performers, other than monetary reward, recognition is also important. Respect come from two ways, not only towards top management. Agreed?
   
   
3. Just can't gel with company's culture
   Everyone's belief and culture may determined his/her length of service. You can't stay in a company which the culture is in contrast with yours. Remember, it's 5 days a week, 9 hours a day job. Example, most of your colleagues joining a direct sales company part-time, but you're not and against it. Can you overcome it?
   
   
4. Unfavorable company forecast
   Normally due to merger and acquisition exercise, employees may feel that it's not in their favor to stay. Maybe he/she will be the one being axed out or VSS later. Then, why don't I leave first before being forced to do so?
   
   
   
   
   
5. Imbalance Work-Life situation
   In the end, working is not everything in life, employees evaluate their lifestyle also especially when he/she gets married and having children(s). Where you work and live is also important. Time spent on traffic jam is stressful and time consuming, which may lead to the exit door.
   
   

After knowing all this, employers should be smart enough to examine each and every candidates before hiring them. Questions such as "Where they live?" and "What's their expectation?" must be asked. Happy working.

What is the job of a student?

As I am writing this post, I know there must be many other student out there doing their part for the school. What I mean here is, these students are not studying or learning or enjoying their school life. Instead, they are told to "do sales" for their beloved school. Do you know that students are running across the town? Do you know that they are sweating under the sun? Do you know that they are wetting under the rain?

Doing Sales for the school?

Indeed, this is not a new phenomena in Malaysia, at least for the past 20 years. It had been practiced this way since my good old student days. Doing sales here meaning a student is going all out to persuade or convince public to donate money for their school. Is it doing sales? By promoting projects of a school, renovations, new hall, new lab, new school field, students are passionate enough to contribute their energy and time for the benefits of their school. If this is not sales, then what?

But, is this the right thing to do?

Please do not forget, the main objective we enroll into school is to study and learn. Although such actions by students is good in nature, schools should not encourage it. If the student is a volunteer, this is nothing wrong. What if it is not? He might feel that he is not loyal to the school, and feel he is being forced to do so. In the end, this particular student will hate the school and his studies.

Students are studying in library

Whose job is it actually?

Ok. Schools need money, especially private schools. But, who is going to get the funding? Finance Malaysia thinks that everyone of us should, except students. Just let student go to school performing their duties - study and learn. In contrast, headmaster and parents association and public at large should put in their efforts to get the funds needed. I would rather see headmaster going all-out to get donations instead of students in the future. Would this proved that the headmaster is good? Of course.