What is the best relationship between the company and its employees?

I read a book carefully recently and found the best answer to this question-alliance.

1.？ We used to think that a company was like a family. As long as employees are loyal, they can get stable promotion and salary increase step by step until retirement. But in the internet age, this is already different. The survey found that in the 1980s, 56% of enterprise executives believed that loyal employees were worthy of long-term employment. But in the 1990s, only 6% of executives had this idea. It can be said that the family-related employment relationship has long since ended.

2.？ Since the family model doesn't work, what is the best employment relationship? The answer is-"alliance", the company is not a family, but a team. The goal of the team is clear: win the game and win the championship. Everyone will get together for the goal. After the contract expires, players can move freely, and the boss can also choose to lay off employees or introduce new players. Although it is not an iron rice bowl, the team and players trust each other, pay each other and benefit from each other.

3.？ Specifically, how to establish an alliance within the company? Remember a core principle: lifelong system. In other words, no matter how long employees stay in the company, the company should work with employees to set a phased goal of completing one term, and then work with employees to set a goal for the next term. If the term of office ends, both parties have gained their own growth and benefits, and the employment relationship can be terminated amicably whether the employee wants to leave or the company lays off employees.

4.？ You might say, isn't this the contract system? That's not true. The contract system only stipulates the position and duration, and does not actively plan the career of employees. Under the tenure system, both parties will have clear expectations for work tasks and goals-what goals the company can help employees achieve, what skills the employees learn, and what promotion they will get after completing the goals; And what work employees have accomplished during their tenure, and what benefits and growth points they can bring to the company. These will be stipulated in advance.

5.？ The biggest advantage of the alliance between enterprises and individuals is to make both sides full of trust. In the past, many employees didn't understand the company's plans for themselves, only knowing that they would wait for promotion and salary increase. When I get a promotion and raise, I don't know when the next promotion and raise will be; I even complain that I should have been promoted a long time ago, and life tenure can just solve these problems. By designing a gradual commitment, I plan a person's career as a series of terms to better attract and retain excellent employees.

6.？ What should employees do if they fail to achieve their goals within one term? The company can conduct regular inspections on employees every quarter, and ask employees to report, feedback and adjust in time to keep on the right track. If the employee is really incompetent, the two parties can also negotiate, such as changing posts to start a new term, or considering direct dismissal because the promise of "moving towards the same goal" with the company cannot be realized. As long as the two sides communicate amicably, the problem can be solved.

7.？ Under the alliance relationship, the company can also set up a special fund to encourage employees to expand their contacts. LinkedIn has such a fund that employees only need to explain in the reimbursement report what valuable information they heard and what knowledge they learned from the dinner. If the boss is more open-minded, the company can even invite employees from other companies to hold some dinners or club activities. This kind of social activity is not expensive, but it can help employees build new social networks and expand their business.

8.？ Under the alliance relationship, there is another kind of employees, which is easily overlooked-former employees who left their jobs. In the past, we always thought that people who left their jobs were no longer valuable to the company, but in fact, the workplace relationship after leaving their jobs was more like the relationship between universities and graduates. Employees who leave the company also carry the identity of the company. Therefore, the company should pay equal attention to the resigned employees and maintain the previous employee alliance.

9.？ How to maintain the relationship with former employees? You can arrange a special person to establish and maintain a contact group, provide free gifts and preferential prices for in-house purchase of products for former employees, or invite them back to the company to participate in party activities and important celebrations. If former employees successfully introduce new employees and new customers to the company, they can also be given cash rewards. McKinsey & Company has done a good job, establishing an information database named "McKinsey Alumni Record", with more than 24,000 former employees and members, and regularly updating their career changes and maintaining good relations.

10.？ What are the benefits of spending so much effort to maintain the former employee alliance? The specific performance is in four aspects: ① Recruitment, former employees can introduce suitable talents to protect new employees. ② In intelligence, former employees have richer external information and deeper insight into industry trends. ③

On the customer side, former employees will recommend new customers to their old employers and bring new business. ④ In terms of company image, maintaining the relationship between former employees can improve the reputation and credibility of the company in front of strangers.

1 1.？ To sum up for you, the best way for a company to retain talents is not to hire and retain them with heavy money, but to establish an equal alliance with employees under the principle of mutual benefit, create value and grow together.

Let's thank reid hoffman, Ben Ka Si Nuo Cha, Chris Ye, the translator Lumengjia who published the book Alliance and Fang Zhongxin Publishing House!

Finally, share the golden sentence with you:

The best relationship between a company and its employees is an alliance-the company is not a family, but a team.