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Employees can be gems to the employer or nightmares you'd want to wake up from. Of course, as employers, you'd always want the gems in our staff. But sometimes, as circumstances would have it, you would need to settle with some nightmares. What exactly are the kinds of employees? Here are three kinds of employees.

1. The Under-motivated: These good enough employees do good enough work - that is, good enough to keep them from getting fired. There really is nothing extra ordinary about these employees. These employees exert the minimum effort, work at the minimum rate, to achieve the minimum requirements for staying employed. These would be the employees who spend their entire morning online, emailing, going through viral video, forwarded jokes, etc. You can see them struggle to put in last minute in the last few hours of the work day. You might wonder how they do it - the luck of skilled procrastination.

It's too bad that's what's good enough for these employees usually don't matter in the company's big picture. Successful companies aren't just good enough. Likewise, worthwhile employees are more than good enough.

2. The Acceptable: And then again, there are the okay employees. These okay employees are better than the good enoughs. They do their work; they do what's expected. The okay employee will try to earn an honest day's wage. They will perform as you would expect because they would want to really earn their wage.

Okay employees are, well, okay. You can't ask for more from them - you shouldn't; that is, unless you pay them to.

3. The Asset: Sweet dreams, not nightmares, are made of these employees. These dream employees work and achieve beyond your expectations. Each day, they try to overcome achievement obstacles. They do their tasks, and do other things for the company too. These employees are slowly expanding their skill sets and their realm of influence.

In a typical company, about seventy percent of employees are okay employees. The rest are either good enough or overachieving. Ideally, you should try to increase the number of overachieving employees and reduce the good enoughs. By increasing those who do a lot to better the company, you can look forward to several successes. Besides, the overachieving employees usually become the company leaders and visionaries.

Likewise, with this kind of setup, it is best to award incentives to those who will take good initiatives for the company. It is always important to award good and beyond-expectation work.