3 ms·
Hang on a minute. If millenials are so ambitious and craving of advancement, what kind of advancement is going to be possible without hierarchy? Certainly ditch
by Boothroid 9y ago
Hang on a minute. If millenials are so ambitious and craving of advancement, what kind of advancement is going to be possible without hierarchy? Certainly ditching hierarchy narrows the options for rewarding employees.
Also, ditching hierarchy risks royally pissing off older workers that have worked for years to ascend, and in some cases these are the very people whose knowledge is indispensable to the functioning of the company. Finally, at some point these millennials will get older, and some may stay at a company for years. How then to reward loyalty if hierarchy is ditched? Isn't loyalty worth rewarding via hierarchy given the cost of hiring new people and having them learn the business?
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoLots of ways. One way: certify employees in different facets of the business. Older employees will have many certifications; newer ones, fewer. Pay them by certification; respect their opinion based on certifications. Heck, you can even issue medals for each one, and the old greybeards can have a chest full of brass.
- Boothroid 9y agoIn an ideal world perhaps - in my experience in many businesses there is often a gap between the way things should work, and the way they really work, and it's often the old timers that are the keepers of this knowledge, and it's not the type of thing that's amenable to certificates.