Murmur to the Districts is now a blog both about my random thoughts AND funny English! Yes... as you do not know, I correct senior high school students' English essays for a partial-living every weekend (in Taiwan). I love the job... and one of the perks is cracking up whenever I (or my co-workers) come across one of these "gems." Read for yourself and enjoy!

The name, "Murmur to the Districts" was invented by one of these very students.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Happy Employees = Happy Company

What a lot of business owners and managers don't understand (or don't care to understand) is that a happy employee equals a happy company. Take Google for example; all their employees are extremely happy there and are therefore innovating and creating at unprecedented rates. People are lining up around the block just to get a position at the company! What does that mean? Well, it means that Google doesn't have to accept crappy employees (or, employees that can't do their jobs well) and then FORCE them to do better. Since people love working there, Google has a large selection of potential candidates and can choose the best person for each job. And that best person will be happy inside the company, meaning that their work gets even better!

I've got a theory about employee responsibility, too. I propose that employees should be given their job description and told that they're required to achieve a certain amount: nothing more, nothing less. If the employee goes over on either side - they're in trouble! It's like a machine or a biological system; for it to work perfectly, each and every part has to do exactly what they're intended - nothing more, nothing less.

Moreover, managers won't always be prodding employees to do more and more... which actually leads to anger, resentment, and eventually, quitting. Tell your employee to do exactly what he or she was hired to do and that's it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One of my former highschool classmates actually works for google now and he is Hakka Chinese creep on my facebook his name is Steve. Even in highschool he was one of the smarter people I know and the smartest Hakka I know. I think he is there right now.

Anonymous said...

Opps Dont get mad, my grammer is bad, seeing as your post is about bad English Grammer. Oh and I read an article about how there are so many more Chinese English speakers then native English speakers with North American accents that one day English will become Chinglish.