Subah ka bhoola

How many times have you compared your current employer to your ex-employer?

Typical reasons- for more pay, responsibility, authority. Gone are the days when one joined as 'babu' and retired as a 'bade babu'.
Does anyone know which company had the first HR dept for recruitment?

Either the employer is not good enough or the employee for each other.
Read the principal/agent problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem

The one thing that has helped to nail attrition when I use to handle a team was well defined expectations from every team member Initiatives earned bonus points. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect

And now I am out of operations for very reason that the biggest problems are people problems, not complex processes. I did what I had to do and luckily in 18 months I was released to work on projects. The easiet way I have realised "In order to lead you must at times follow" was from the days in Ops.
And yeah I got that line from Achilles-the movie.
How much can an employee to achieve both the company's objectives and his personal goals is really bothering me.
Every employee has something to offer and his needs change over time. Employer when willing to satify his current needs shouldn't I suppose face the threat at of high attrition.
The best places to work for have attrition too. Look at Google http://blogs.business2.com/netly/2007/10/more-google-bra.html

Coming back to my problem, how would one feel to work for his ex-employer?

As the hindi adage says " Subah ka bhoola agar shaam ko ghar aaye to usse bhoola nahi kehte". Usse chutiya kehte hain.

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