PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: ITS IMPORTANCE

ARJON S. ISIP

Employees are the most valuable assets of every organization. No organization has ever succeeded without its people. People management can be challenging, but it is an essential skill that every leader must possess to effectively execute plans and achieve organizational goals. Leaders who have this skill can align the team’s objectives with what the organization aspires to achieve and how it envisions itself to be. This can also nurture a culture of continuous learning and improvement, turning a team’s weaknesses into strengths, building strong support systems, and providing guidance that is relative to the growth and success of their employees. But why is people management important? There are a lot of reasons why it is important. Leaders who have bad people management skills can aggrandize the rate of employee turnover, lower the team’s productivity due to poor maximization of resources, make workflow mistakes resulting from a lack of communication, inability of employees to deal with challenges, deprive employees of profession advancement, and increase unresolved conflicts amongst employees. These can paralyze the organization, if they are not dealt with, in performing and achieving its goals. Good people management can encourage high productivity among team members, minimize workflow errors because of effective communication, strong cooperation and collaboration between employees, low employee turnover rates, foster a culture of free thinking and idea sharing, encourage innovation, provide professional development to employees, and effectively carry out plans and achieve goals efficiently. Leaders who have good people management ascertain that each of their people understands the vitality of their roles and responsibilities, can communicate clearly with their employees, practices and encourages constant feedback and makes sure to listen to them, helps employees solve problems, anticipates and manages conflicts among employees, facilitates brainstorming and makes the employees feel that their ideas are reckoned, and supervises the professional development and advancement of their employees in the organization. An organization can invest in any high-tech, up-to-date resource and employ its best talents. But if the leaders of the organization lack people management skills, it will still be dragged down into chaos.

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