{"id":8724,"date":"2020-09-15T22:54:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zigsaw.in\/jobs\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2020-09-15T22:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:24:05","slug":"skip-level-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zigsaw.in\/jobs\/employee\/skip-level-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip-level Meetings and Why They are Important"},"content":{"rendered":"

An organisation runs on its human resource. With high upgrades in the technological constraint and the progress of Artificial Intelligence, a large number of jobs are automated and rightly so. As per future trends, AI is likely to take over 37 per cent of the total jobs in an organisation in the next six years. In Spite of that, it’s debatable as to how effective that is and if it can completely surpass the need of the human capital.\u00a0<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Employees keep the social and the operational structure of an organisation impact and each employee has a specific role to play. Irrespective of the fact that which level of the organisational hierarchy an employee belongs to, the work and presence of every employee is detrimental to the success of the organisation.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Now, keeping a large group of employees can never achieve organisational goals. The employees have to be met with consistent appraisals, feedback, raises, etc. This is to say that the employee has to be provided with positive reinforcements in order to boost his\/her morale which in turn would lead to increased productivity and long-term retention.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of ways by which employee morale can be boosted and not all of them are monetary measures. This is where skip-level meetings find their significance. In these kinds of meetings, employees from even the lower levels of the organisation are duly given the significance and hence inculcates a sense of importance in them. This boosts employee morale and also has a different edged advantage. Skip-level meetings also allow the upper-level management to gain information from the grass-root level of employees without any filtration from their immediate subordinates.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Read on to find out the know-hows of Skip-level meetings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does a skip-level meeting mean?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Skip-level meetings are meetings where the flow of information in an organisation is bypassed along the traditional hierarchy that an organisation follows. This means the top-level management, say the Vice President does not conduct a meeting with his\/her immediate subordinate. Instead, the VP skips two or more levels of the hierarchy and holds a meeting with a relatively lower-level of an employee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that upper-level management has a better and clearer insight into employee perceptions as well as the employee attitudes at the grass-root level. On an overall dimension, it increases the transparency of the entire organisation. On addition to that, it also improves effective communication between all levels which is one of the most detrimental factors to the success and productivity of an organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why conduct skip-level meetings?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Skip-level meetings have multi-dimensional uses and all of them advantage both the employees as well as the organisation as a whole. It is a sure-shot way to gather authentic information, boost employee morale, improve the organisational fabric as well as ensuring transparency at all levels. There are a number of reasons why HR personnel should include skip-level meetings as an important aspect of the functioning of the organisation. It is a great way to bring individual goals and organisational goals under the same roof to make sure they coexist and evoke mutual success.<\/span><\/p>\n

Advantages of skip-level meetings<\/strong><\/h2>\n