According to an article in The Globe and Mail, “nearly half of Canadians feel they are over-qualified for their job,”. So the question raised is how does a company keep these employees from moving to new jobs, what is their incentive to stay? What can the company do to avoid high employee turnovers?
This is a familiar concept in which we have discussed in Comm 101 class, and it seems very much relatable to the class in which we discussed the online shoe company, Zappos. Co-CEO of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, repeatedly emphasized the point of creating a workspace where the employees would want to come to work and where they would want to work even if they weren’t paid. I feel that the workspace that Hsieh wanted to create ties into the topic matter in which this article is talking about. If employees feel that they are over-qualified for their job, that obviously means that the job is not stimulating enough for them, and they feel that their skills could be put to better use. If their position is not a reason for them to stay, then what does the company have to offer that acts as an incentive to these “over-qualified” employees? According to Hsieh, it would be the company’s environment and how the employees interact with each other. The attitude that each employee brings to the company adds up to a positive environment that is an incentive in itself for employees to be loyal to their jobs. It’s also important to have company goals and objectives; if your employee really believes in these goals, then their position shouldn’t really matter as much as their contribution to the company as a whole.