Sometimes back I wrote a post ‘What’s in the name? SuccessFactors for HR‘ where I mentioned the special skill of an HR manager who knows every employee by name. While I was reviewing a new feature in the software EmpXtrack, called Employee Hierarchy (similar to an Organization Chart), I recollected a motivating incident.

It was in the beginning of year 2002, I worked with a business process outsourcing organization. One day I was working quite late and trying to finish a training project before leaving for the day. The Managing Director, Mr. Aashish, just passed by and saw me. Five minutes back, he came back to my desk and said ,”Hi Gireesh, why are you working so late today?” The rest was a normal chit chat.

This incident left me highly motivated for many months to come. I was amazed by the fact that my Managing Director knew me by name, while I was merely a grass-root level executive, almost a nobody in the organization which was 2500 big. Sometimes later I discussed this incident with my manager and he revealed that on seeing me working so late, MD has called him just to ask my name.

Later on a friend’s recommendation I read “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie. In this book Dale Carnegie (Section “Six Ways to Make People Like You”)says, “Remember that a man’s Name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”, which highlights how important it is to remember and call people by name.

It is a proven fact that employee feels motivated and honored when top leadership remember his/her name and call by name. But how come in organizations which are as big as 500 + employees, can a MD or an HR Manager or anybody at senior management level remember most employees by name? With a sophisticated HRMS (Human Resources Management System), it is possible!

A photograph enabled Organizational Chart or Employee Hierarchy Tool enables managers to see the photographs of all employees in the organizations. This tool shows an employee hierarchy tree showing who’s who and who is in whose team etc. along with their photograph, and other details. Look the image below?

Using sophisticated HRMS tools you can easily allow your managers and leaders to remember employees name and let them win employees’ (respect) and influence them (to perform better).

What are your waiting for? Act Now!