Company Attitude

The days of companies creating allegiance to their brand by being employee, family, friendly are long gone. It still works, but with the fear of competing in a global market it has made the workplace a cold environment. In the case of many small companies they still use the approach of family to grow their business's. Why then does it not carry over when they do "get there"? The definition of professional needs to include family friendly and you would see an upswing in American business. This goes both ways. In times of economic hardships, workers use to do whatever they could to make their company a success. It is called mutual respect. Instead of the company's first reaction to an employee with problems being "your fired", it should be "we value your experience , lets see if we can work this out". By the same token if an employee is disinfranchised with their company they should review their commitment to where they work and make a resolution to be a team player or leave and find a more suitable environment. Both sides have made the dollar their priority, when in fact success through productivity and quality bring dollars. Quality and Productivity are like oil and water when combined with forced indice methods over time. There has to be mutual respect.