By: ProShop Team Memeber
Don’t be like companies that still think of people who make the wheels turn as resources. It’s no surprise that these businesses end up with lukewarm water. Certainly, people are a resource of sorts. For example, they make the decisions, complete tasks, and pour their creativity and expertise into your organization. Unfortunately, when a company only sees people as a resource like inventory, this removes the human ingenuity element. As a result, your shop turns into the murky and tepid waters of a swamp infested with pests.
People are not just resources. They bring resources, they are complex beings that have a myriad of unique potentials. Limiting your appreciation of your people results all too often in a predicament similar to trying to herd cats. Those employees you want flit, dodge, and evade capture. At the same time, the ones you could take or leave are all too happy to run on auto-pilot. This leads to a lack of genius and creative spark necessary for the growth of your organization. If a company wants to attract the best talent, consider pitching resources and instilling a culture to celebrate employees.
Recognize and empathize with the employee mindset
No employee ever said, “I want to work for ABC Company because Human Resources hands out apples on Fridays!”
There are three simple (but at the same time subtle) things that every human being, from the simplest to the most complex, needs to fulfill their own psychological needs. When these three concepts are found a person is balanced, determined, and motivated. Imagine a culture where all the talented individuals no matter how simple their task had a powerhouse of well-being and stability in their lives. The successful possibilities are endless. A company that wants to be successful must have human beings full of these three things to build teams that reach their highest potential together.
Self-determination theory: use it to attract employees everyone wants
Richard Ryan and Edward Deci brought to the table the concept of Self-Determination Theory. They uncovered the three absolute needs of every productive trait of self-propelled individuals to grace a company. A human being who feels connected, competent, and autonomous has the ingredients to build a culture and a world well there is no limit to the potentials that can be discovered. They have psychological well-being (Ryan & Deci 2006).
An employee who cannot find psychological health is not productive, has limited vision, lacks creativity, and will stagnate. Organizations who can look at their own mission statements with an eye for humanity, and honestly analyze the culture they present to the potential recruits have a chance of incorporating these concepts into their overall vision which will spill over into the mass of humanity attracting the best applicants. A company cannot shift the perception of job seekers until they shift their own perception about themselves as an organization.
- Where is your company connected or how are the people within the group connected?
- Do you nurture responsible adults capable of making self-determined decisions?
- How do you recognize competency, ability, and inventiveness?
Conclusion
The more authentic the people of the company are the more attractive the company will be to those with similar mindsets. The US Department of Labor reports that companies are describing a lack of soft skills in potential employees. It is the astute business that also realizes the culture they promote becomes the soft skills of the organization itself and with this knowledge can create a fertile field for recruitment, or the company can return to how they have always done it and produce that tepid swamp of human resources.
Reference: (2006, 2021), Ryan R. & Deci E. Center for Self-Determination Theory. Retrieved 25 July 2021 from, https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/theory/