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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Motivating Employees

While organizations invest a substantial amount of money on buying and maintaining machinery, keeping employees motivated is often overlooked.  However, since human beings are decidedly different from machines, they need to be motivated and at times even pampered. 

Here are some guidelines on how to keep employees motivated:

Make your employees feel wanted and secure to keep them committed t the organization. 

Pay your employees more than what the market offers.  Review their benefits package on a yearly basis.  Make sure that your employees are aware of the benefits that are being given to them. 

Ensure that the objectives chalked out for each individual are clear and can be easily understand. 

Maintain open channels of communication and keep team members updated on the organization’s progress.

Institute a system of training to enhance employee skills.  This will result in individual and organizational development.

Make sure that you are accessible to your team members at all times.  Ensure that team members are accessible to each other as well. 

Maintain a friendly work environment so that your employees feel like coming to work and can enjoy their jobs. 

Initiate a fair system of rewards.

Arrange get together like annual dinners, picnics, social events etc. so that the team turns into a family.  Make it a point to remember employees special occasions such as birthdays, weddings etc.  When employees are faced with crisis, take care of them. 

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