We need to teach our children the importance of being on time. It starts there. If not, later in life meetings won’t start on time, they’ll be late for appointments, and the importance of being at work every day and on time becomes a problem that managers must then try to manage. Punctuality and attendance are important at work as in life. But they’re the biggest employee relations issues in many companies. With managers acting like parents. The concept isn’t that farfetched – parents must say ‘no’ to some things, but they never stop caring about their children; parents who run alongside holding onto their child’s new bike trying to help guide them while knowing they eventually must let go; parents who gather around the dinner table each night talking to their children about the day’s events. At work we often talk of it being a family – not quite, but with many of the same principles of family dynamics. So, no matter what a new employee brings with them to work on their first day, start then with reinforcing the family values that co-exist in the workplace. Because when we understand the importance of respecting each other’s time we then begin treating everyone with trust and respect. Then we can start managing everything else today.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of modern management theory.[1]
[1] He was also a leader in the development of management education, and invented the concepts known as management by objectives and self-control,[1] and he has been described as "the champion of management as a serious discipline.”
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