Top 10 mistakes that bosses make, Encash these mistakes..Be Smart..

Calling the boss H - Hitler, A - Arrogant, R - Rascal and I - Idiot caught everyone's attention in Naukri's TV commercial, would you do the same if given an opportunity? Even though it was just an advertisement, it did reflect the plight of employees in the IT industry. Lets find out top ten mistakes that even good managers and bosses make. So I am listing below the top ten mistakes which are very common amongst bosses.

1. Fake Promises
2. Micro-management
3. Using improper mode of communication
4. Leading through intimidation
5. Lacking empathy for employee's situation
6. Becoming inaccessible to your employees
7. Not providing guidance or motivating employees
8. Not providing a clear picture - Transparency
9. Insecurity about their post
10. Trying to be friend as well as boss or showing partiality

10 most popular incentives that firms offer BEWARE

From project completion lunches to holiday sponsorship, companies around the world dole out several innovative incentives to employees, in a bid to retain them. Employee's should be cautious before joining an organization that is the offer a bait or butter? I think, the ten most popular incentives that employers offer, and employees enjoy today are:-

1. Cash Bonus
2. ESOP's
3. Project Completion Lunch
4. Joining Bonus
5. Tax Saving Incentives
6. Trip Abroad or Holiday Sponsorship
7. Corporate Discounts
8. Motivational Employee Recognition
9. Insurance
10. Rewards and Recognition

Infosys employees vent anger on HR issues in blogs

Employee activism is on the rise at Infosys, India's second-largest information technology services firm, which employs close to 114,000 in India and across the world.

The company's effort to tame the disgruntled employees, who were earlier venting their anger in public forums and some social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, by giving them a blogging platform on its intranet, seems to have back-fired.

So much so, the company's HR Head, Nandita Gurjar claims to be getting thousands of negative reactions to her blog postings in the company's intranet 'Sparsh'. This has forced her to set up a team of six to moderate the blogs and 'My voice', the dedicated website the company has developed to seek the opinion of employees on important policy matters. Infosys is understood to have changed some of its HR policy decisions, coming under severe attacks by the employees in these blogs and 'My voice'.

Read more on:-
 http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/apr/15/slide-show-1-infosys-employees-vent-anger-on-hr-issues-in-blogs.htm

Welcome to Blow Your Job blog

All,
Welcome to Blow Your Job blog. This blog is for employee's who feel their job is not justified by their employer in the terms of their profile, increments- bonuses, salary, promotions, and specially those who hate company policies and their bosses. Feel free to add comments on their drive in their previous and current employers. Be open to others and express your feelings to help people who expect to join.
Also you all can share tips of interviews and questions asked to get into any organization.
Justify injustice to you at its best. You never thought your career will shape in the way your employer took it. At times you must have felt that your employer took an advantage of your situation, your innocence, your honesty, and your loyalty towards work. Many a time’s credit which you deserved was never yours. Be a Robin Hood of your dreams. This blog is all about just one thing “Dreams Shattered” by your employer.
Remember love your job not the employer, because you never know when your employer stops loving you. Be Venom to them.