A Coffee Business is only as Successful as the Employees they Hire.



A well known coffee brand/company with a proven business model is only as successful as the employees they hire. Hire________employees to contribute to___________coffee business.  Even without completing the blanks, The sentence itself makes sense.  When you fill in appropriate words to complete the sentence, it swings both ways.Example:

......"right"employees to contribute to the "success" of coffee.....
                             OR
....."wrong"employees to contribute to the "failure" of coffee.....

Let's try re-phrasing this."Hire the right employees to contribute to the failure of coffee business."

It may sounds very wrong but this is still highly possible, when a very good employee with proven credentials  are "coerced" to work out of his capability. When his job scope reads "what he CAN do" instead of "what he WANTS to do" or "what he was hired TO DO." I will not dare claim that this will lead to no success, it will but success will be limited or takes a longer time to achieve as this same employee will not only be performing what he was asked to, he will have to along the way, "learn" how to do it and may it work at the same time. Isn't it more economical then to get an apprentice for the job? To learn as he work and get compensated for it. (read "compensated" and not paid a salary)


Getting the right employees is also cheaper for any coffee company in the long run, and to that i don't mean Good Employees= Lower Salary. The process of hiring in any company which require locating, hiring and training  represents considerable expense.  Employee turnover is especially expensive, as  filling a vacant position can mean more money put in advertisement, training labour, slow down in business income etc .   Because of the expense involved,in terms of both time and resources, it’s important to get it right the first time.  Hiring someone who is wrong for this company or for a particular position within the organization is bad for everyone and can seriously affect company morale.

Ever heard the popular phrase, "I quit the Boss/Manager, Not the Company"? Well, this happen when a wrong employee is hired for that Managerial position and leads to a group of "Right Employees" to leave the Company because of the "Wrong Manager." Now then, whose fault is that?





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