Dynamics Vs. Static Vs. Job Security Vs. Corporate Employees

Why do people stop acquiring knowledge with time?  People stop learning newer things and always love to settle with what they already know.  They also believe that what they know is the best knowledge and nothing could exist beyond that.

This is very common with most of the corporate employees.  They always give importance to result oriented knowledge than innovation oriented or creative knowledge.  With years and years of experience, the corporate employees try to sell what they already know in different forms and colours as new piece of knowledge.   Beyond the small and occult sphere of their knowledge, the corporate employees could seldom see or accept the existence of any other knowledge. 

Why people behave so strangely even to acquiring knowledge?   When an employee joins the organization, initially they tend to show or display their knowledge, attempt to double it if possible.  Once they are set well in the organization, they love to grind the same ‘batter’ over and over again. 

Why people refuse to acquire new knowledge or are least open to it.  To understand the above fact, one needs to understand the psychology of the corporate employees and the very prevailing corporate ecosystem.    

The corporate ecosystem is generally very dynamic and ever changing.  Securing and retaining job in the corporate itself is an arduous task for most of the employees.  Hence they develop the psychology of static or look for stability in everything.  In other words, shy away from dynamic approach or dynamic ecosystem.

Knowledge being very dynamic and ever growing & ever expanding, the basic psychology of the corporate employees never allows them to go for newer knowledge.   Acquiring new knowledge means it has to replace the existing knowledge in them, or a new edition of the knowledge has to be placed.  This creates instability or a dynamic state which the corporate employees never like to have as they always desperate for a stable state. 

Unfortunately, the psychology of static or stable state never differentiates where they should look for stability and where they should not.  Like a grinding machine, their mind goes on grinding irrespective of whether it is grain or stone.  Anything which is dynamic or unstable in nature, be it knowledge or anything else, the corporate employees never able to accept or appreciate.      

Another interesting twist to the above scenario is that the peer group in the corporate also will be following the same style and hence the utility value for acquiring newer knowledge become very useless or go vestigial.  None or most of the corporate employees never like to do anything which does not have any commercial value to them or to the corporate.

Even in many academic institutions also, people once reach the highest post or position, never tend to update their knowledge by citing administrative reasons.  In true sense, the knowledge is in no way helping their day to day activity once they reach such position hence they stop acquiring knowledge.