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Should you spend more time with your best or worst employees?
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In other businesses, it might be more beneficial to work with your low performing employees to improve their overall work ethics, especially if you NEED them to remain employed with you. Some businesses simply cannot afford to lose employees and this would be the scenario where putting in more time with your poor performers would net you better results.
In any case, from an ethical standpoint, you should always put in more time and effort for your better employees. Your quality workers are going to inevitably make you more money, be more reliable and dependable, and will net you a better business model overall.
Keep in mind this isn't junior high or high school, it's the real world where if you don't perform well in your job...you can't blame everyone else and take a 70 for makeup work.
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I believe there has to be a balance, regardless of your approach.
Deciding to spend less time on either party (best or worst employees) will equate to neglecting one or the other to some extent.
It is in my opinion however, that it will likely be more beneficial to start off spending more time on the worst employees. This is with the intention of correcting/guiding their work attitude, resulting in a shift in the balance between "best" and "worst" employees. Eventually, once the imbalance between "best" and "worst" employees becomes too great: significantly more "best" than "worst", more time can then be spent with developing the "best" employees into better than "best".
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The mediocre employees aren't trying to take your job, the best are.
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Thank you, both of you have shared very interesting ideas.
I suppose, the best thing to do would be to retain a good sense of flexibility in our judgement because there hardly ever is a "one size fits all" solution.
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On the contrary, suppose you give more attention to your weak employees then it could be good but you can't increase their level of efficiency. Actually, it is employee engagement or retention that can lead to the improvement in employees' work. Now, you can apply different strategies to improve employees' engagement in the workplace and giving them attention could be one good strategy. However, you can't apply this strategy in all cases without critically handling all internal and external factors.
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In general, your employees' performance will have a Gaussian-like distribution: the vast majority will be mediocre performers, with two minorities being worst and best performers.
- The worst performers drain the company's resources and should be fired.
- The mediocre performers are what keeps the company going, and it is important to maintain and develop their skills for the overall company's performance to increase.
- The best performers set the direction of the company, they are the ones who innovate and do the most sophisticated projects necessary for the company to prevail in the face of harsh market competition.
I would say that you should make sure your mediocre workers maintain their skill level, or increase it as the company grows to keep up with the demand - but your best workers are who you should really invest in, as they are who creates the growth in the first place.
It is similar to how it is in sciences. The vast majority of scientists contribute very little to science as a whole, but combined, they create the base holding everything. Then you have the left end of the spectrum, the scientists which should change their field, as science simply is not their forte. And finally, you have the best of the best, people like Einstein or Hawking, who take this base and launch it forward in order to learn something principally new about the Universe. It is important to invest in all scientists barring the least competent of them - but you really do not want to throw millions at a random guy in a small college in the middle of nowhere, and funding Einstein will give more return than equally funding 100 mediocre scientists.
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