mardi 15 avril 2008

Human beings and human doings!

BY JOHN MORRISON, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY BUSINESS BUZZ
The Nova Scotia Business Journal

The value of an employee is measured in how much they produce. All employees are hired to produce a product or service that has more value than they are being paid in wages or salaries. In the private sector, this is measured in profit. In the public sector, it is measured in service delivered, calls answered or clients engaged.

In the work environment, these outputs are a result of a series of activities – the things people do. Often when we are measuring the performance of our human resource, we forget that this is only one component of each and every one of our employees.

People are not born as human “doings.” In the infant stages, they are incapable of “doing” anything for themselves. Before people become a human resource in employment they are human “beings.” To be a human being is simply to exist....

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