Prince Kofi Amoabeng, CEO of UT Holdings
It has emerged that former workers of defunct UT and Capital Bank are no longer attractive for employment due to the manner in which their former companies collapsed.
The biggest casualties are those at the management level. One says he drives Uber to make a living, another has set up a pork joint to survive. The positive thing is that some of them would be motivated to start something on their their own and will see their Businesses flourish and employ many. Majority will join the unemployed pool and scramble over the few jobs that don’t exist.
But what do we learn from all these as young people.
When the company you work for goes down, you go down too.
In view of this, when you find yourself at a privileged position in any organisation, realise that it is not being managed prudently and your inputs are ignored, master the courage to resign. Yes, resigning is not part of the Ghanaian culture as long as the paycheck is huge but we need to learn it.
We need to learn to alight from a ship we deem destined for wreck if the captains won’t listen to our precautionary calls otherwise, we will die together.
Some of the people suffering from the collapse of these banks didn’t contribute to the collapse. They only stayed during the period of mismanagement.
Some didn’t see it, some did but they were okay because their salaries kept coming.
We must also learn to speak truth to power.
When your boss is making bad business decisions, find a respectful way to draw his attention to it. Many workers in Ghana don’t take the companies that employ them as theirs, they don’t care enough. All they care about is their salaries hitting the bank account.
We must guard our jobs, we must give our all, don’t do social media during product ours. When the company you work grows, your benefits would follow in the same direction.
Customers are the heartbeat of any company, no CEO serves as receptionist. The receptionist is the most import PR of a company. When customers come, you behave as if they have come to take your job.
How can a seller be rude to a buyer? Don’t you know that you are paid from the money brought by the buyer?
The truth is: you have been employed by the buyer and just on the books of your boss. Once the buyer stops coming and the business crumbles, your boss won’t have need for you. Regardless of your position, you play a role to make it better. An so there’s no excuse, some of us are the first point of contact to our organisations, we have to give our best.
Generally, our commitment towards another persons job is too bad and where we are stopped from making impact, we lack the courage to walk out of the door.
The point is simple, though disjointed: do all you can to make your company flourish, when you are prevented from doing the above, resign, state why and find another job or start one.
It is one thing being a common floor member of an organization even though that comes with it’s own responsibility, when you are privileged to be in a position where you can influence decisions or at least, see clear signs of mismanagement and your warnings are not regarded, maybe, just maybe: resign and state with clarity, why you can’t continue to be a part of that company until proper management practises are employed.
We have 7 major banks out of business and there’s no story of a single staff who said enough is enough during the period of mismanagement?
When the banks collapsed, some have lost their jobs, some are about to. To prospective employers though, they are not good enough.
As we speak, some are paying the price for looking on.
Am I even making sense?
