Tesar-Reynes

Call me old fashioned, but don’t throw out all the old to achieve the new. At the end of all the recessions that I have been through, there is “The Great Re-hiring Phase”. Companies start to back-fill vacancies and then selectively grow staff. The hiring managers, who have lived through all the cutbacks and re-orgs, see these raw troops as Manna from Heaven. The newbie’s are thrown into the fray. If they complain, the response often is: “You are damn lucky that you have a job; we can talk about it later when there is time.” There will never be time.

It is up to senior management to initiate a program to address this problem: re-instill the concept of mentoring. Managing does not mean just giving orders. It means teaching and passing on good judgment. Managers who turn a blind eye to this concept will experience high turnover. Their workers will leave to find a company that views employees as an investment. I think this will be particularly true of Millennials.