I n the world of business management consultants, Bob Nelson is a legend in his own time. The author of 19 books, including Management for Dummies and 1001 Ways To Energize Employees, he has worked with some of America's largest companies and has sold more than 2 million books. Nelson also has made his imprint on the tech field. Nelson recently sat down with Hosting Tech for a chat about the challenges of keeping techies happy.
Companies often focus on the wrong things when they want to have an impact with their employees.
They tend to focus solely on the tangible incentives and the financial things. Those are certainly important, but typically, other things are also important. In fact, more important. For IT people, interesting work in a fun environment, being involved in the workplace so they have a say in how the job is done, and being given autonomy and flexibility are all important. Well, IT people are already paid pretty well.