Question

Why do we find so many cases of employee disengagement?

Answer 1

Employee disengagement, as the name suggests, refers to a stage where an employee becomes disinterested in his or work and starts taking lesser part / interest in day to day workplace activities. A disengaged employee may not create huge problems for the manager or the employer and would still be diligently doing the job given to him or her but would stop putting extra efforts for making the company a better place. There are various reasons in an organization that can lead to disengagement of an employee. Some of the most common reasons across the organizations are discussed below:

1) Bad management: When the management of the company fails to recognise the needs of its employees, does not participate in providing constructive feedback to them and is not able to provide them with a safe and productive workplace environment, all these factors result in the disengagement of the employees.

2) Poor career planning: In most of the cases, employees do not even know what their actual job is and often, there is a mismatch in the roles that they were hired for and the actual work that they are required to do. Employees are clueless of what future they hold within the company and what the company has planned for them. Gradually, these factors becomes a reason for employee disengagement.

3) Lack of training: In order to stay relevant in the market and match the increasing competition in business, training plays a very important role. Majority of the organizations do not give much importance to training and development activities and therefore, employees feel lack behind their peers in the industry and in other organizations.

4) Lack of participative leadership: When the key decisions of the organization are taken by only a small group of people belonging to the top management, the rest of the employees do not have any say in the decision making process. Over a period of time, employees start developing a sense of disengagement due to lack of participation and acknowledgement from the management.