Employees Are One of Our Top Priorities

Ask any executive of an company what their top priorities are and inevitably you will get a response of employees are top priority. If this is the case, how do we explain the enormous popularity of the comic strip Dilbert and television show The Office, which often tend to mock how companies don't create environments to build or develop employees. Companies will often focus on acquiring the best employees in the marketplace but once they have arrived don't spend much time to continue developing them. Furthermore when it comes to developing in house talent, companies will focus on developing training classes and programs for employees, while those are all fine I don't believe it is enough. From my perspective what companies should be doing is developing environments to enable development. Similarly to the theory of motivation, individuals are motivated by conditions of their environment not by words of encouragement. This motivational environment often leads to employees feeling fulfilled by what they do which drives better performance in the work place.