Thinking not included
The following came across my Twitter feed today, courtesy of jasonaverbook:
Interesting how humans are becoming machines-”we dont pay them to think,we pay them to execute”-heard twice in few weeks
And my immediate thought was:
…there are still people thinking like this in business?
Such a thought is a reflective of what I would call transactional thinking, a reductionist way of evaluating an employee’s worth. This is a convenient way to categorize employees; it’s a simple, black-and-white philosophy that says: “if you aren’t producing, you aren’t worth it.” Unfortunately, for us HR-types, the lines are not so clear. We deal with employees on a different, often a personal level, so we realize that while, yes, you aren’t paying employees to think, what they are thinking is tied to their ability to execute.
Just food for thought.
