Promotion Blues..
We read about companies trying to fix their employees in the organization by giving them extra perks ( more than they deserve ), untimely promotion, perks related to families and so on. Very little for an employee to understand that these are strategies for the employee to continue his stay in the organization, which helps the company curb its cost to a certain level. After a person gets promoted, implications - jobs responsibilities increases or made to be increased by his seniors just to make him feel empowered,KRA's redefined or may be his base location is also changed!! There have been several occasions, i have encountered where my candidates have been given counter offers by their companies so that the management could avoid the cost to get in a new person and lapse in the process they were involved in, not to be surprised, but, yes the candidates accepted the counter offers made by the companies. These strategies are helping the companies to avoid the uncertainities of a cand...