When you suddenly come to know that someone, who has been working for you for close to a decade, is intentionally damaging your professional reputation -- what would you do?
That he has been demotivating the newcomers to the company, projecting a host of wrong information about company's reputation and falsely projecting about a hostile work-environment, came as a rude shock to me because he used to be one of my most trust-worthy employees.
After an initial shock, looking deeper into the issue for identifying the root cause revealed an age old problem that most of the companies face while on growth-path: Salary disparity between existing employees and new recruits.
However, a million dollar question is: Did he feel cheated when I brought in a team of young professionals with a much higher salary than his?
Even if so, why then, instead of discussing the issue with me he decided to get into such a negative and unprofessional way of venting his anger out -- is perhaps a billion dollar question?
The objective of writing this post is not to offer an instant solution to this problem, but to make you think about a strategy when you face a similar situation: Either as an employee, or as an entrepreneur!
Why people betray long trusted association, is the question I'm looking for an answer to!
Do you have anything to say?
That he has been demotivating the newcomers to the company, projecting a host of wrong information about company's reputation and falsely projecting about a hostile work-environment, came as a rude shock to me because he used to be one of my most trust-worthy employees.
After an initial shock, looking deeper into the issue for identifying the root cause revealed an age old problem that most of the companies face while on growth-path: Salary disparity between existing employees and new recruits.
However, a million dollar question is: Did he feel cheated when I brought in a team of young professionals with a much higher salary than his?
Even if so, why then, instead of discussing the issue with me he decided to get into such a negative and unprofessional way of venting his anger out -- is perhaps a billion dollar question?
The objective of writing this post is not to offer an instant solution to this problem, but to make you think about a strategy when you face a similar situation: Either as an employee, or as an entrepreneur!
Why people betray long trusted association, is the question I'm looking for an answer to!
Do you have anything to say?
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