Involvement in the organization is also a determinant in an employee’s
attitude. An employee who doesn’t feel like part of the “team” will try just to
meet the minimum levels of performance, while one who feels like he or she is an
integral part will try to go over that standard. So management must consider
each worker as equal importance to the organization. Conclusion Of course, every
situation is different when it comes to attitudes. The techniques discussed are
some recommendations and are situational. Management will find many cases and
each case is somewhat unique. Can attitudes be changed? Yes, at least sometimes.
What’s most difficult is sculpting a person’s attitude to fit a certain specific
need. Anyone can go up to a person with a good attitude and change it into a bad
one. That’s easy.
Yet, sometimes, that’s what may be needed for an organization.
I’ll close with an example of this from my own personal experience. I recently
had two employees working for me, but these two were husband and wife. Even
though I may like the husband employee working for me, I may not like the wife
employee to work for me. This was exactly the case. I hated that girl for
professional and personal reasons, but couldn’t really fire her for two reasons.
First, if she leaves, then he leaves. Second, she really liked the type of work
she was doing for my business, and it is this second reason that I changed. Of
course, if an employee likes the work that they are doing then it is an
advantage to the organization, but I felt that I had to make her believe that
she really didn’t like working at my store so that she leaves on her own terms.
This way, I get rid of her without loosing the husband employee. To make a long
story short, I don’t believe a small business should hire a married couple due
to problems which can arise from personal feelings (If just one of the two
employees find a disagreeable situation, then the other will be enticed to
follow. Now, there is double the problem.), but in the beginning, I had no
choice since she wanted to tag along. Her husband was the prime choice for my
store due to his extensive knowledge and experience in this field, and for the
amount of pay that he was willing to take, I wasn’t willing to give up that
opportunity. So lesson well learned.
Words: 1969
