Benefits and Problems
A description of benefits & problems associated with transfers is given below:
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Benefits
- Improve employee skills otherwise
- Reduce monotony, boredom
- Remedy faulty placement decisions
- Prepare the employee for challenging assignments in future
- Stabilise changing work requirements in different departments/locations
- Develop employee satisfaction and morals develop employer-employee relations
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Problems
- Inconvenient to employees who do not want to move
- Employees may or may not fit in the new location/department
- Shifting of experienced hands
- may affect productivity
- Discriminatory transfers may affect employee morale.
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Transfers ought to be carried out in a systematic way, having a view to avoid allegations of discrimination & favouritism. Some of the above cited problems related with transfers could be ignored, if organisations formulate a specific transfer policy, for utilize at different points of time.