04/26/2022
The term "Vicious Circle" is commonly used and associated with bad employee activities caused by various factors such as those already described, but perhaps the owner or senior managers are the ones who allow and even generate vicious circles with their poor organization, or little knowledge. Who has the power to break it? Remember, if the head is doing bad, the arms will not be doing better.
What is a Vicious Circle? A vicious circle is where the employee does a bad job in revenge for a mistreatment from a boss or even a client, where through revenge the employee finds a little justice because he understands that his boss will do nothing to improve the situation.
Types of revenge used by employees to find peace after an act of injustice by the boss or a customer:
- Sabotaging equipment or machinery.
- Steal stuff.
- going to the bathroom many times for long periods of time.
- Do a bad job.
- Exaggerated time to finish a work.
Hiring managers who are going to carry out the tasks and where the owner will begin to reserve the most strategic work.
In society, we unconsciously relate to people very similar to ourselves, beyond hobbies, race or love of the same football team, that which unites us is perversity of each one, you do not think about this, that complicity is beyond words. that which we know we share but that we do not say because of the shame of accepting it, talk seriously and make strong decisions, I bet you're going to choose someone similar to you for the simple fact that you already share that dark side that you don't love showing to everyone and everything becomes easier, keeps you in your comfort zone. Now the newly hired manager becomes an extension of the virtues and defects that the owner has, if the owner hires someone who surprises him in a good or bad way, he will not last long in the position.
If you don't know yourself as a person, man or woman, lover, friend, owner, boss, client, etc. etc. you will never be able to end the Vicious Circles of your organization, that means that you will not be able to improve your earnings and you will continue to work late.
How to detect that your company is in a Vicious Circle?
- You cannot achieve with a work schedule.
- Many expenses in materials and tools.
- Many foremen.
- Lots of unexpected or last-minute jobs.
- Overworked burnt out people.
- Work under pressure as a job description.
Self-awareness and acceptance:
Honesty with yourself, self-awareness with justice and acceptance with humility, Remember as a motivation, the fact that if an employee does not care about the company, it is because the company does not care about their employee and not the other way around. Do not blame others and learn how to be empathic.
As an owner, you will surely find a lot of reasons why employees have bad attitudes or give you bad results, but the only one who has the power to improve the work environment is the owner.
Learn from your mistakes, know yourself and stop judging and blaming employees for poor efficiency
