How do you keep happy employees?
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Would you believe that an effective way to keep your people happy is by firing away the unhappy ones?
Sounds like a joke? Jay Goltz really hoped it was.
Goltz, who owns five small businesses in Chicago, shared his secret in keeping happy employees in the company in the report from Yahoo! Finance.
Admitting that he doesn’t have a Ph. D., an M.B.A. or any economics degree, Goltz said that he had learned through times that you cannot make everyone happy.
He said, you can try – listen, solve problems, listen some more, solve more problems… but there will come a time that you will realize that you are robbing the company precious time and energy by trying to keep some people happy.
Goltz said that he doesn’t really get hyped up every time he fires people. He is one to admit, “There’s no joy in the act of firing someone.”
He continued his article sharing “bad management can make a good employee dysfunctional, but a good management may not always make a dysfunctional employee good.”
And then there’s the case of “being a square peg in a round whole” where an employee who used to exceptional elsewhere may not really perform at par in your company… it could the type of business or the culture in the organization.
Goltz was right on the dot when he said that it only takes one. A single unhappy employee can make a big difference.
He summarized by saying that, it is his style… his opinion. “Everyone has right to his or her opinion. When you own a company, you also have the right to surround yourself with the people you choose.”
“When you have the right people, business is much easier. I know because I have tried it both ways.”
Unorthodox it may seem, but Goltz maintains a happy organization.
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4 Comments on How do you keep happy employees?
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novz on
Mon, 15th Mar 2010 5:31 pm
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Holly Jahangiri on
Fri, 2nd Apr 2010 6:53 am
i read this in yahoo yesterday and i immediately forwarded it some colleagues. i feel like firing some people. hehe.
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Here’s an idea: Fire from the ground up. In other words, employees who feel management is hindering their ability to be all they can be and achieve all they can achieve can fire their bosses.
After all, bosses can be pretty miserable people – and their salaries are usually higher. So it’s a win-win-win, right?
Yeah. I’d better get back to work, now. (Love ya, Boss, if you’re reading this!!)
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Roy Reply:
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:13 am
haha! love your rebound on the last line 
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Roy Reply:
March 15th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
haha! looks like you have some unhappy (or grumpy) personnel under your wings
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