The Burn-out
(continued)
A Civilized Break-up
Still there might be a situation when mediation techniques like
"psychological services" are of no service. Very often
the burn-out phase is caused by the fact that an employee has
simply grown out of his job. He feels a greater and unrealized
potential in himself, therefore being bored with fulfilling
the same uninteresting work every day. This period of efficacy
decrease of an officer may result in many unpleasant situations,
such as labour discipline breach, conflicts with colleagues
and higher-ups, aggression towards clients. All these things
are inadmissible if your company is interested in making a stable
profit. In this case the most effective solution is to discuss
the problem with an employee and to find out its genuine reasons.
Sometimes the so-called "internal rotation" may be
of great use.
For example, a junior developer of a software development
company has been working successfully in one team for a year
and suddenly decides to quit. Why? Because her work isn't
interesting any more. It turned out, that the project manager
and other colleagues have guarded the only girl in their team
against hard and exhausting tasks; thus her duties have been
gradually cut down to monotonous fixing of small defects of
other developers' work, instead of creating something on her
own. After a conversation she was offered to familiarize with
other projects of the company and to choose one for herself.
She has taken an occasion and still works in this company.
Even when all means of improving the situation are spent
and "a say-goodbye" is the only way out, you can
make the break-up rather pleasant. First of all, you are able
to diminish your ex-employee's stress, to discover the real
reasons of his leaving a company and to make important conclusions.
What's more, your HR department can help him find…a new
job. The procedure is as follows: each employee fills in a
special exit questionnaire, has an interview with a company's
recruiter and gets an information packet (the list of popular
job hunting websites, CV writing techniques, materials about
passing an interview, etc.). You can also give a person opportunity
to attend a special seminar, during which recruitment service
officers help to acquire practical skills of job search and
to write an effective CV.
It is quite possible that after all these procedures many
workers, who decided to quit will change their mind. And if
not, they will leave your company without excesses and will
tell everyone and everywhere about a serious concern for employees
in your company.
So let's prevent conflicts, because it's much easier than
to solve them. And whatever you do - do it as a human and
as a professional and many problems described above won't
occur at all.
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