Human Capital Management | 10 Things you Can Do to Loose your Best Employees:

Human Capital Management 10 Things you Can Do to Loose your Best Employees:

1. Hire them promising an appealing job that has nothing to do with what they will do in the reality:

That's the beginning of this strategy. Hire talented people for jobs where they have to switch their brains to a stand-by position.

2. Think that they will be motivated just by their salary:
Everybody knows that smart and creative people just care about money. They don't care about challenging jobs, appealing projects or start-ups, having the flexibility to develop their jobs, or being part of an outstanding team.

3. Never explain to 'them' the companies overall strategy.
They need just to know what they have to do. After all, who needs to know the global strategy, besides the CEO and a few others?

4. Don't be transparent.
Never show them the companies performance, the retribution policies and how much their colleagues are earning for the same job. Avoid explaining company's changes or bad news. It is always better that they know through rumors.

5. Never pay attention to their suggestions or ideas:
Just tell them it is a great suggestion and you will think about it, and of course do nothing. Or better, tell them that it's not their job to think about how things have to be done, but doing what the have been told to do.

6. Enhance competitiveness among team members:
It is the right path to get people engagement with the company and a great working environment that will retain the best employees.

7. Avoid they have any control or responsibility over the work they are doing:
If he/he is a software engineer, just let her know about the code she is writing, not the overall project. If he/she's a content reviewer just let her know about the articles he/she has to review. Don't set up medium term goals over which employees can plan their work and achieve their goals.

8. Never tell them how good they are:
That's a terrible mistake. They could believe it, and maybe then ask for a better job, a salary increase, or worse, going to the competition (anyway, that's what you are trying to do with this advise isn't it?)

9. Always control them:
Everybody knows that you cannot trust people and strict control is necessary. :-) Set innovative rules as being at work at a certain hour, or not having the possibility to solve personnel issues while being at work, so they will increase their stress and obviously work better, etc.

10. Support yes-man and isolate people with a critical sense:
a. That's the definitive one. Because as you are the smarter guy in the company you only need people to tell you how good you and your company are. Don't let those newcomers tell you where and when your are going to crash.

b. There are a lot of other things you can do too, but for now just do these 10 and be sure you'll retain only those guys than can't find a better place to go. That is what you are trying to do, isn't it?