What Should Expect From Your Employer?

Career Advice: What Should You Expect From Your Employer? By
Ramon Greenwood

What should you expect from your employer if you want to be a
first-class player and a winner?

Foremost, you should expect to be provided with an environment
of opportunity in which hard work and achievement are rewarded.
This means you will be encouraged to grow as fast as you can,
broadening your capabilities and building your experience every
step of the way. You will be allowed to assume all the
responsibilities you can handle.

This environment of opportunity should allow you to take common
sense risks with the assurance that you will be rewarded if you
are right and not punished if you turn out to be wrong.

You should expect your employer to provide you with the assets
you need to get your assignments done on time and in a manner
that produces profits. You have little chance of being a winner
unless you are employed by an organization that satisfies this
expectation.

You should expect your employer to maintain a highly visible
connection between efforts, achievements and rewards. You will
not have a nurturing soil in which you can grow to be a winner
in the absence of a reward system that distinguishes between
doing and "gonna do." There is little incentive to make your
best effort where the annual compensation review almost always
results in across-the-board, cost-of-living raises for one and
all alike, loafers as well as producers; where winners are never
singled out for a pat on the back.

Over time, the absence of opportunity, the lack of resources and
the failure to reward good work will kill the fire in even the
most ambitious of us. These failures will also cripple
organizations.

Those who are driven to be winners will be smart enough to
either change such a destructive environment or leave it.

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