I would like to write this in English, as it could be interesting to people who are not Italian.
First of all I want to specify that these are my personal feelings and thoughts, nothing to do with what others who are involved in the same situation feel or think.
In a working environment (as in the family, as with friends.. but let's stay focused on that), relations between two countersides (employees vs employees, or employers vs employees) have to be balanced: one day one is stretching the rope, another day the other one is; as long as in an office people respect each other and they are productive, the employer shouldn't give to employees any reason to be angry with the company or with the colleagues, the employer should balance between rules and "common sense" (I used to hate those words, but in the last few days I'm giving them another chance).
In the office rules are very important, when situations are not clear a rule has to be put in place and applied when possible; by the way, rules have a limit, they do not take into consideration all the other intrinsic variables of an environment made by person working for 9 hours a day all together.
Before continuing with that I want to make an example that shows very clearly the difference between rules (mathematic rules in this specific case) and human beings; let's say there are 10 persons walking on a square when a terrorist with a rifle starts shooting killing two of them, how many persons are now walking on the square?
This is to show that the "thinking brain" variable in a system made by persons is very important!
Going back to the office, what do you think it happens when the employer applyes all the rules without taking into consideration how people could feel those rules and how the same persons could react?
From a mathematical point of view, if an employer applyes those rules, nothing happens, the employees just acknowledge them; in the real world instead, if the employee thinks that he has always been fair with the company and in what he has done and, even recognizing that he hasn't followed exactly the procedure, he thinks the reaction of the employer is not fair, he will start to think how to "have back what the employer is trying to steel from him".
Summarizing, employers have to pay attention trying to push the employees to the limit, could be that they won't have any employee to push in a very little time.
P.S. No animals or employees have been killed to write this post.
First of all I want to specify that these are my personal feelings and thoughts, nothing to do with what others who are involved in the same situation feel or think.
In a working environment (as in the family, as with friends.. but let's stay focused on that), relations between two countersides (employees vs employees, or employers vs employees) have to be balanced: one day one is stretching the rope, another day the other one is; as long as in an office people respect each other and they are productive, the employer shouldn't give to employees any reason to be angry with the company or with the colleagues, the employer should balance between rules and "common sense" (I used to hate those words, but in the last few days I'm giving them another chance).
In the office rules are very important, when situations are not clear a rule has to be put in place and applied when possible; by the way, rules have a limit, they do not take into consideration all the other intrinsic variables of an environment made by person working for 9 hours a day all together.
Before continuing with that I want to make an example that shows very clearly the difference between rules (mathematic rules in this specific case) and human beings; let's say there are 10 persons walking on a square when a terrorist with a rifle starts shooting killing two of them, how many persons are now walking on the square?
- Math: 8
- Human Being:0
This is to show that the "thinking brain" variable in a system made by persons is very important!
Going back to the office, what do you think it happens when the employer applyes all the rules without taking into consideration how people could feel those rules and how the same persons could react?
From a mathematical point of view, if an employer applyes those rules, nothing happens, the employees just acknowledge them; in the real world instead, if the employee thinks that he has always been fair with the company and in what he has done and, even recognizing that he hasn't followed exactly the procedure, he thinks the reaction of the employer is not fair, he will start to think how to "have back what the employer is trying to steel from him".
Summarizing, employers have to pay attention trying to push the employees to the limit, could be that they won't have any employee to push in a very little time.
P.S. No animals or employees have been killed to write this post.
