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How to not suck as an Employer!

by karanr on 3/15/11, 8:58 PM with 1 comments

  • by andrewce on 3/16/11, 2:35 AM

    One more thing: Challenging/important tasks.

    Some of this gets filed under "Growth Prospects", and some of it gets filed under "Autonomy". If your employees have challenging and/or meaningful things to work on, and an environment where they feel they'll be successful, that makes it quite a bit easier to stick around.

    Not to say that grunt work is bad, but your employees who need a larger motivation than "It's my job" or "It's how I earn money" need to see how the work they do contributes to something larger than the stack of paperwork on their desk.