Employee Complacency - A Silent Killer - Organization

Employee Complacency - A Silent Killer - Organization

Complacency is the resultant of lack of inclination to surge ahead in the path. It’s a dangerous symptom for the employees in an organization. It halts the creative thought process in an individual and obstructs him doing things differently. The ramifications of complacency are multifarious, not only on an individual but also on an organization.

Complacency thwarts an individual from dreaming Big

One of the debacles of complacency is that it will dwindle the appetite for setting up bigger goals and to devise an action plan to achieve them. The employees would feel satiated with their existing tasks, would show no sign of any interest to learn different skills or different processes within an organization. They would rebuke at every aspect of their work and the management, and Organization. 

It may result in resistance to change

This kind of an approach would make them outdated in the competitive environment as they are generally reluctant to learn new things. They would vent their anger on new systems and indulge in discouraging employees with high spirit to learn new things. They would display a character of pessimism towards every aspect of their professional life. This attitude would make them laggards in the race and fail miserably in the long run, resulting in acute distress. They cannot scale up in the organization hierarchy and repent on their state of affairs in the long run for their past inaction.

It depletes the passion of an individual

A passionate personality would never nurture complacency as he would certainly be aware of the consequences of complacency. The inner drive of a complacent person is lacklustre, sluggish and affects the working environment of an organization adversely.

It can be a contagious disease and trap the fellow colleagues

The pessimists suffering from the disease of complacency can easily contract this one to others. They would try to demoralize and derail the positive people with their complacency approach by talking about every other trivial limitation as opposed to helping them to potentially use the existing resources for optimal outcomes. 

It may result in under-performance and affect organization as a whole

It may result in the poor performance of an individual, that person may not concentrate on his work which might have devastating impact on the client experience. Thus, there is every possibility of client subscription cancellations and ultimately affecting the earning potential of an organization.

Hence, the organization should always be cracking-down on the complacency workers, try to change their attitude for the benefit of the individual or organization as whole. If necessary, the organization must take disciplinary action; possibly fire them from the job for the benefit of every other stakeholders of the organization