For most, the search for a job is motivated by the need to acquire a stable income to meet the different needs of life. Despite this, many model employees are resigning to offer their skills to other companies; the reasons are multiple and do not refer only to the search for a high salary.
Generally, employers are far from understanding the real reason why most of their employees are resigning. While the financial reason is what motivates any employee to move to other more lucrative jobs, but other important reasons are behind their departure.
According to recruitment firm Hogan Assesments, 75% of the 1,000 US employees with whom they interviewed said the direct cause of their resignation was their manager, whom they considered their worst nightmare. However, it would appear that disputes with the employer would also not be the only reason; many reasons that are unfortunately recurrent, encourage employees to look at other professional horizons.
What are the reasons employees leave their jobs?
Work overload
The mistake most employers make is that when a model employee is satisfied with the job, he or she is often assigned to perform multiple tasks or process multiple files at once. The result is a professional as well as emotional overload with, as a bonus, a totally neglected private life. Also, a burnout is quickly diagnosed and the employee finds himself under the influence of stress or even depression.
Tip: An employee needs a work / life balance to feel fulfilled. The best is to spare him and let him take a bowl of oxygen. There is no point in overloading him except to botch his job; better a qualitative work that will motivate him more.
Lack of growth opportunity
When an employee no longer perceives any future prospects or growth opportunities in a company, he prefers to look for this opportunity elsewhere. Stagnating in a job for years is not what a good ambitious employee is looking for.
Tip: Employers must use adequate training for all employees to enhance their skills, improve their work and move up the ladder.
Lack of encouragement
Every employee who works with rigor and intelligence deserves to be encouraged. He would like his work to be appreciated so that he is motivated to provide more effort and above all to continue to carry out his work seriously. Otherwise, he will be quickly discouraged and unmotivated.
Tip: A simple "Good job" or "I congratulate you for the work you have provided" is enough. Thus, simple words of encouragement and gestures of appreciation will allow the employee to feel valued.
Lack of confidence
Unlike a new employee who needs to be assisted and guided in their early years, a senior employee in the company will inevitably feel a lack of self-esteem when their employer continues to infuse him with what he or she must do and how to proceed to perform his work.
Tip: A certain amount of work freedom must be given to the employee who already masters his duties. To harass him at any moment would only make him run away from the company.
Lack of challenge
An employee who is stagnant in his work and continuously doing the same repetitive tasks will no longer be motivated by his monotonous work. The boredom will take place and the employee will look for other centers of interest but in other companies.
Tip: The manager must integrate it into other activities and rekindle his interest in the company by helping him develop other skills and experiment with other challenges.
Bad salary policy
When a good employee notices the promotion of mediocre employees at the expense of the best, he will quickly feel discouraged and seek to leave the ship in search of career development elsewhere.
Advice: The most important thing is to adopt a fair office policy, by paying the right employees at their fair value, based on the profitability and the results provided by each employee.
Understanding the expectations of any employee is a good managerial management. A good employer must listen to his employees, accompany them, encourage them and remunerate them for their true value. Also, good communication is essential to help employees express their motivations and needs and feel more valued.
As Jules Romains, artist, writer and poet, has put it, "the true boss is someone who passionately mixes with your work, who does it with you, through you".