Drawbacks of Holding Tony Back

Question:

Write about the Case Study for Human Resource Development Review.

A case study has been provided where an individual named Tony wants to resign from his current position as he is feeling isolated in his workplace. The main reason is that he is unable to connect with different members of his team. A rumor about him has spread where he has been criticized as an improper team player. Moreover, his excessive use of technologies had been criticized by his senior workers who are over 20 years experienced in this organization. Since he was not being able to adapt with the organizational culture, he wanted to resign form his post. This had been his habit of resigning from all organizations where the company’s policies did not match his working attributes. However, a large number of habits have been observed in the individual that are not appropriate if he wants to be an expert business professional. Often a large number of issues arise in workplace in the corporate world where an individual need to either handle effectively or develop traits in order to adapt to the situation. Experts are of the opinion that adaptability is very important trait every individual should harbor for being successful in corporate world (Alagaraja & Shuck, 2015). Therefore the thesis statement which would be selected here is “the immediate supervisor of Tony should not accept his resignation and in turn counsel him and help him develop strategies to handle such adverse situations at workplace effectively.” This would be helpful for him in his future endeavors.

There would be a number of drawbacks for holding Tony back at the workplace. The first drawback would be that as he has lost the zeal and enthusiasm in working in the organization due to a number of factors like criticism, failing to apt with company’s policies, spreading of rumor, isolation and others, it would result in poorer productivity form him. He will not be able to concentrate on his work as he is having emotional turmoil caused due to the feeling of isolation from the team members. Moreover the criticism he had received had destroyed his confidence. Therefore all these would affect the quality of the task he would be assigned. As he is not being able to mix up and be part of the team, effective teamwork would also not take place. The work environment may get stressed as the other members who do not like his working style may not want to work with him and therefore conflict in interest may arise. All these would ultimately affect the productivity of the organization. Another important drawback was after retaining Tony back, he has to be given proper training about how to adapt to different uncertain situations and events effectively. He had to be taught the different traits which would help him to adapt with the present situation. He does not have proper team working skill and therefore his teammates are not happy with him. Even if this had been a rumor, he has to handle this event effectively by proper development of social skills and empathy. These are important for developing strong bonds with other employees. Proper rapport and strong informal relationships are very much helpful in giving and receiving effective feedback which help in maintaining teamwork. All these would be taught to him by proper training schedules. Conducting training for him will result in investing in resources and time. Expenditure of resource will be an additional pressure on the company’s financial status. Moreover, it will also lessen his hours of productivity on the work floor. Therefore, these might come as effective drawbacks which may affect the organization to some extent.

Benefits of Retaining Tony

There are large numbers of benefits that remain associated with the retention of Tony. The most important benefit is that he is a young individual who has working styles which are of the age and are very new. Such new working styles when are allowed to be implemented in the environment may help in development of strategies which help in overcoming many barriers that are not possible with the older traditions in the workplace. The older generation of the employees does not like his attributes as they believe that he is dependent on technology for his work. However, this should be taken as a positive attribute as recent researches suggest that application of technology in the present generation workplace not only increase the productivity but also makes the work faster (Hodkinson et al., 2013). A goal can be reached quickly and the work provided through technology makes it accurate and less number of human errors appears. Therefore this attribute of the employee should be taken as his strength and he should be advised to spread the trend in such a way so that everyone of his team learns the use of technology in their everyday tasks. Secondly, he is a young sole and his working styles are much more advanced than the traditional working style of the employees. All the positive aspects of his recent working styles should be tried to be gradually spread among the older senior member to make them adapt to the recent working cultures and make them more efficient. Researchers are of the opinion that young workers have abundance of energies along with a natural thirst of knowledge which when rubbed off on other colleagues can help in invigorating the workplace (Anitha, 2014). Their sheer determination can inspire other colleagues to work with same zeal and dedication. Such young people can bring in fresh perspectives and can provide a variety of solutions and ideas which help in different ways. Their creative and innovative ideas not only help in providing quick and witty solutions to different adverse situations but also help to establish many new perspectives of working wand developing strategies.

With their high spirit and level of enthusiasm, young people can develop a friendly competitive environment which helps in reaching the organizational objectives at a faster rate. Moreover, young employees are highly updated with modern strategies and technologies and can therefore lay very innovative and creative foundations that reflect future growth of the organization (Unwin & Wellington, 2013). They think in very different ways and come up with different perspectives which might not come up with senior workers following traditional methods. Therefore, if the supervisor retains Tony and trains him about developing his adaptability traits, communication skills with team members and proper team working skills, he can use his versatilities and help in develop a very modern working culture. He may establish creative and innovative strategies for the organization. He can also spread the trend of modern methods of working in the workplace which will help in developing a modern working culture and update the older workers with recently evidence based working patterns. More the use of technology is influences, the outcomes of the task would be more rapid and free form nay mistakes. Therefore, although there would be a preliminary expenditure of resources after retaining him for his training purposes, he would be able to bring in some fresh knowledge and working styles which would be helpful for the organization (Eichorst et al., 2014).

Conclusion:

The case study of tony is quite complicated and it really becomes difficult for the supervisor to determine whether he or she should be allowing resignation of Tony. In this case, the retention of Tony is the best decision that should be taken by the supervisor. However, this decision has both drawback and benefits. The drawback is that as Tony is not liked by the team members, making him work in the team may affect the team productivity and the workers may develop negative feelings towards the organization and the supervisor. Moreover, Tony is also not confident anymore and is going through emotional turmoil because he has been abandoned by the team. Therefore he would also not be able to provide the best quality work and would be stressed. This would affect his productivity. Moreover, there would be an additional training expenditure on him for proper teamwork and adaptability. However the benefits would be that as he is new, he has fresh knowledge and high enthusiasm which can develop the workplace environment for better. He has technological knowledge which can result in high productivity with accurate results and outcomes. Moreover young minds can produce innovative and creative ideas which can help in overcoming many severe issues with ease. It can prevent monotonous working styles and introduce innovative styles which will reflect future growth. Hence, the supervisor should not accept his resignation and help him to develop as a business professional.

References:

Alagaraja, M., & Shuck, B. (2015). Exploring organizational alignment-employee engagement linkages and impact on individual performance: A conceptual model. Human Resource Development Review, 14(1), 17-37.

Anitha, J. (2014). Determinants of employee engagement and their impact on employee performance. International journal of productivity and performance management.

Eichhorst, W., Boeri, T., De Coen, A., Galasso, V., Kendzia, M., & Steiber, N. (2014). How to  ombine the entry of young people in the labour market with the retention of older workers?. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 3(1), 19.

Hodkinson, P., Hodkinson, H., & Sparkes, A. C. (2013). Triumphs and tears: Young people, markets, and the transition from school to work. Routledge.

Unwin, L., & Wellington, J. (2013). Young People’s Perspectives on Education, Training and Employment: Realising their Potential. Routledge.