Catfish not only stirred the living environment of small fish, but also activated their viability. Catfish effect is a means or measure to stimulate some enterprises to become active and participate in market competition, thus activating enterprises in the same industry in the market. Its essence is a negative incentive and the mystery of activating employees.

It should be emphasized that in some enterprises, catfish talents have become the driving force for enterprise promotion because some bureaucrats have been idle for a long time or unable to undertake new tasks and responsibilities.

Basic introduction

Catfish, an active fish, is nothing special in itself. However, since some fishermen used it as a tool to ensure the survival of sardines in long-distance transportation, the role of catfish has been paid more and more attention.

Sardines naturally like quiet and pursue stability. I don't have a clear understanding of the dangers I face, but I am very comfortable with my present life. The fisherman skillfully used the active function of catfish to keep sardines alive, and in the process, he also gained the greatest benefit.

origin

Origin 1: Norwegians like sardines, especially live fish. The price of live fish in the market is much higher than that of dead fish. So fishermen always try their best to get sardines back to the fishing port alive. However, despite all efforts, most sardines still suffocated in the middle. But there is a fishing boat that can always get most sardines back to the fishing port alive. The captain kept the secret strictly. The mystery was not solved until the captain died. It turned out that the captain put a catfish with fish as its staple food in a fish tank full of sardines. After the catfish entered the fish tank, it swam around because of its unfamiliar environment. Sardines get nervous when they see catfish. They ran from side to side, dodging everywhere and speeding up their swimming. In this way, the problem of hypoxia of sardines will be solved, and sardines will not die. In this way, the sardines returned to the fishing port alive and kicking. This is the famous "catfish effect".

Origin 2: Like the "theory" of boiling frogs in warm water, it originated from China in 1980s and 1990s, but it became an exotic product after being misinformed.

arouse

For fishermen, the catfish effect lies in the application of incentives. Fishermen use catfish as an incentive to encourage sardines to swim constantly, so as to ensure that sardines are alive and get the maximum benefit. In enterprise management, managers also need to introduce catfish talents in order to achieve management goals, thus changing the relatively stagnant situation of enterprises.

For catfish, the catfish effect lies in self-realization. Catfish-type talents are necessary for enterprise management. Catfish-type talents appear out of the need to obtain living space, rather than having such a good motive from the beginning. For catfish talents, self-realization is always the most fundamental.

For sardines, the catfish effect lies in the lack of sense of urgency. Sardines employees have too little sense of hardship and blindly pursue stability; But the reality of life is that sardines are not allowed to have a moment of peace. If sardines don't want to suffocate, they should and must actively seek a new way out. All the above aspects must be considered when discussing the catfish effect.

The root of catfish effect lies in a management method, and the key to applying catfish effect lies in how to apply catfish talents well. How to effectively use and manage catfish talents or organizations is a problem that managers must explore. Because of the particularity of catfish talents, it is impossible for managers to manage catfish talents in the same way, and a considerable part of the existing management methods may be outdated. Therefore, the catfish effect puts forward new requirements for managers, which not only requires managers to master management common sense, but also requires managers to make a difference in their own quality and self-cultivation, so as to convince catfish talents and ensure the realization of organizational goals. Therefore, while emphasizing scientific management, enterprise management should be more humanized to ensure the realization of management objectives.

How catfish talents settle down in the organization is also a problem that must be emphasized. There are many "active" talents in history who have no good end in the end. The reason lies in their "initiative", often after offending many people, these people unite to suppress him. Although the organization has made great progress because of these "active" people, the fate of these "active" people also makes many people want to move but dare not move. In fact, the survival of catfish talents in organizations is regular. Catfish talents should do what they can, but they should also learn to keep a low profile and keep a low profile; Catfish talents must be loyal to the organization, but they must also learn to retire after success. After all, any loyalty is limited; Catfish talents must work hard, but they should also pay attention to the method of doing things, which can also be called means. For catfish talents, the most important thing is the realization of self-worth, but the most fundamental thing is how to seek their own safety.

main feature

"Catfish effect" is one of the effective measures for enterprise leaders to stimulate employees' vitality. It is manifested in two aspects:

First, enterprises should constantly replenish fresh blood, introduce young fresh troops full of vigor and quick thinking into the workforce and even the management, and bring competitive pressure to lazy employees and complacent bureaucrats, thus arousing sardines' sense of survival and competitiveness.

Second, we should constantly introduce new technologies, new processes, new equipment and new management concepts, so that enterprises can fight the storm in the market tide and enhance their viability and adaptability.

Utilization of catfish effect

Whether it is a traditional team or a self-management team, after a long time, its internal members will lack vitality and freshness because they are familiar with each other, resulting in inertia. Especially for some old employees, they are easy to get bored and lazy after working for a long time, so they need to find some foreign "catfish" to join the team and create some tension. From Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, when people reach a certain level, the purpose of their efforts is no longer just for material things, but more for dignity and inner satisfaction of self-realization. Therefore, when the "catfish" is put into an old team, the old players who have become a little lazy are forced to work hard again because of their ability and pursuit of dignity, so as not to be surpassed by the new players in performance. Otherwise, there will be no place to store the faces of old players.

For those players who have just met the requirements of the team, the entry of "catfish" will make them face greater pressure and may be cleared out of the team if they are not careful. In order to stay in the team, they have to work harder and harder than others. It can be seen that the introduction of a "catfish" at an appropriate time can greatly stimulate the re-outbreak of team combat effectiveness.

The "catfish effect" is widely used in all fields of social life, especially in the internal personnel management of enterprises. Whether it is a traditional team or a self-management team, after a long time, the relatively stable personnel composition within the enterprise will easily make some employees feel tired, lack of vitality and produce inertia. At this time, if the enterprise can find some foreign "catfish" to create some tension, it will urge the original employees to work hard with a sense of urgency and prove their ability. It can be seen that the introduction of a "catfish" at an appropriate time can greatly stimulate the re-outbreak of team combat effectiveness, bring innovation to the whole team and achieve a win-win situation.

However, the application of "catfish effect" has a premise. If we don't control the number of catfish, all of them are catfish, and the whole team will have the phenomenon of "all dragons, all worms", forming "catfish side effects". Therefore, the rational utilization of "catfish effect" should be scientifically evaluated and operated, and it should be included in the consideration of the whole human resource development. From this point of view, as a "fisherman" manager, in addition to controlling the effective number of catfish, we must also teach different "fish" in accordance with their aptitude. For those active and quick-thinking "catfish" employees, while giving them a wide space and platform, we should pay more attention to their benign communication and influence. For those "sardine" employees who are comfortable by nature and follow the rules, we should motivate them to exercise and stimulate their energy through encouragement, restraint and education, and strengthen their cooperation with "catfish" employees, so as to build a positive, good, cohesive and constructive team atmosphere.

Disadvantages of catfish effect

The "catfish effect" has been highly praised by many enterprises, but we have to see that there are some disadvantages in introducing external forces to stimulate internal members.

First of all, from the perspective of the large team of the enterprise, the positions of talents introduced from outside will not be too low. They are more of what we often call "airborne troops". As soon as they arrived at the company, they were entrusted with a heavy responsibility and were specifically responsible for a specific business. The advantages and disadvantages of "airborne troops" will not be discussed here for the time being. We just need to realize that the arrival of "airborne troops" has hindered the promotion opportunities of former members to a certain extent, thus killing the passion of some employees who have worked very hard. For some people, the purpose of their struggle is to get promoted, to get a higher position and to have more room for development. This purpose is completely beyond reproach. Once you find that you have lost the room for improvement, you can either choose to escape or choose to treat it negatively. In this way, the fighting capacity of this big team of enterprises is even more weakened.

Secondly, for the small team within the company, since it is to stimulate the vitality of the team, the ability of the newcomers introduced will not be very weak. If the team leader can't grasp the degree, he always deliberately puts interest on the newcomers, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the original members. If this dissatisfaction makes the original members more negative, the result of introducing "catfish" to stimulate team vitality will be counterproductive. Finally, whether a "big team" or a "small team" can form complementary advantages with the original members and have the concept of cooperation will affect the future combat effectiveness of the team. Once the imported "catfish" appears strong individualism and obvious single-handedness behavior, it will not only produce the "catfish effect", but also destroy the remaining combat effectiveness of the team.

So the catfish effect can certainly improve the combat effectiveness of a team, but it can also destroy the combat effectiveness of the team. Whether to use the catfish effect to stimulate the outbreak of team combat effectiveness needs the team leaders to analyze and decide according to the actual situation.