#131: The management dilemma

Why did you join your current employer? Did you need the job, any job? Or did you believe in what the organization stood for? Whatever your reason, your employer had only one objective: to use you in a way that would help the organization achieve its goals.

Now, what do you look for when you hire people? You look for the skills that will help you to achieve your goals. Yet, people don’t always live up to the promise of the interview, now do they?

Often the reason can be found in the management dilemma – how to balance the goals of the organization with the needs of the individual.

As a manager of resources, you must focus on achieving the organization’s goals. But as a manager of people, you must pay attention to the aspirations and the needs of the people who are the organization.

Your role is to balance their needs with the demands of the organization. That will always be your dilemma.


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