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Search for interesting topics - the ability not only to feed your brain with useful information, but also to understand the concepts that I did not know before.
For example, the topic of today's article was outplacement - a term that few people in our country know.
Does our brother need an outplacement?
Agree that Europe and the United States have moved much further in matters of working etiquette than Ukraine or Russia.
Countries of the post-Soviet space in the sphere of protecting the rights of employees, civilized dismissal, social security and others are still limping on both legs.
It seems even more strange in the background of the existence of the Trade Union - the most useless organization with a lot of employees who do not get good salaries for anything or anything, sit in armchairs without even trying to take care of workers' rights.
The malicious employers, deprived of control, do not hesitate:
- to dismiss employees for no apparent reason( what kind of outplacement );
- to reduce pregnant women in order not to pay them maternity;
- establish a working day, which they themselves want, without paying extra for extra hours;
- forced to work without days off;
- leave working conditions at the cave level, etc.
Hired employees, deprived of any protection from the state, resignedly resigned, fearing the most terrible - dismissal.
The economic crisis, which further aggravates our country, completely untied the hands of unscrupulous employers: mass layoffs or cuts have become the norm.
The management does not care about the good name of its company, so the fired are often treated like pigs: they do not pay severance pay, verbally abusive, refuse to explain the reason for dismissal, etc.
In the US, an unfairly dismissed employee would quickly go to court, where he would get a decent compensation.
Our brother, realizing all the foolishness of such an undertaking, is only capable of small revenge: inform the tax on the payment of wages in an envelope, tell everyone around what a bastard his former boss is, share secret information with his rivals, take important files with him,computer, etc.
In general, a pleasant little for the management of the company, and for the dismissed employee.
This is well understood by civilized countries, preferring to part with the shortened workers culturally and mutually beneficial.
What is outplacement and where did it come from?
The term outplacement ( from English Outplacement - to employ) is used by managers and managers of personnel.
Already in the very translation of the English word into Russian lies the explanation: the firing of an employee with his subsequent employment.
In addition to the former employee's device for another lukewarm place, outplacement consists in:
- management consulting advice on the dismissal of an employee without conflicts;
- analysis of the professional qualities of the dismissed employee in order to find him the ideal job;
- psychological help specialist who was left without work, which will help him to easily survive her loss;
- is an immediate help in finding a new job: writing a resume, preparing for an interview, advice on probation, etc.
Naturally, such assistance is not gratuitous.
For all the company pays, which reduces the staff, not the employees themselves.
Actually this is the work of companies involved in outplacement and conventional recruitment agencies.
Schemes of civilized separation from the dismissed employees began to be used in the West in the late 1990s.
For almost two decades they have been so refined and refined that our compatriots who are in leading positions can only take ready-made principles of outplacement and use them in practice.
But stubborn big bosses still prefer to spit on people from their Mercedes windows, not realizing that they are causing irreparable harm to their own company.
The main advantages of outplacement
Executives who do not even want to get acquainted with this term and prefer to act in the old fashion, lose a lot.
Such retrogrades just do not understand how much more profitable to use the cultural schemes of dismissal or reduction of employees, accepted throughout the civilized world.
Advantages of outplacement:
- It keeps the nerve cells of not only the dismissed employee, but also his supervisor.
- Thanks to him, you can avoid litigation, and hence - unnecessary waste.
- Allows you to maintain a good relationship with a laid-off employee - who knows how and when your paths can cross in the future.
- Creates a good reputation for the company in the labor market and guarantees an endless turn from valuable personnel who want to work for you.
- Helps to avoid the spread of commercial secrets and hidden information by an offended employee.
Reasons for being fired!
In addition, we must not forget about the psychological factor.
Who knows what a man driven to despair can do if he has lost his only source of income.
Pogrom in the office of an offended company, beating or killing a director, suicide is not a movie scene, but facts from real life.
And a few more words about outplacement and about what
is of itself in Russia,
Why does outplacement do not get accustomed to us?
I asked this question to my friend Alina that she was working in a large recruitment agency.
So, they have an outplacement expert, but it is not in demand very often.
In fact, its only clients are large international companies that are used to parting with their employees beautifully.
The main reasons for such strange behavior of domestic employers, according to Alina, are as follows:
- Greed. Why spend money on a former employee, let him solve his problems?
- Selfishness. I do not care about other people, the main thing is me and my tight purse.
- Primitiveness and backwardness of working methods.
- Unwillingness to think about tomorrow.
- Ignorance of the fact that outplacement exists at all.
Company executives, you should not repeat the mistakes of your fellow retrograde!
Use the outplacement with forced dismissal of employees.
Learn to part with people in a civilized way.
After all, we are going to Europe or what?