These are words from President
Obama.
We are not going to debate the
politics of this statement, which has caused a lot of debate. What I would like
to discuss is how to increase a company’s productivity. If management does not
trust its employees to do their job and they micromanage by trying to control
every aspect of what their workers do. In such a case their productivity
numbers will suffer.
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
Henry Ford fought for better wages for his employees.
There is one rule for the
industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the
lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
So Henry Ford believed that by
treating an employee like a partner and paying them a top wage was the best
thing for a company’s productivity.
The above is proven research. Yet
despite this known fact, most employees are very unhappy with their present
jobs and are just not engaged.
According to Forbes magazine, an
engaged employees means, Employee engagement is the emotional
commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. This
emotional commitment means engaged employees actually care about their work and
their company. They don’t work just for a paycheck, or just for the next
promotion, but work on behalf of the organization’s goals.
When employees care—when they
are engaged—they use discretionary effort.
This means the engaged computer
programmer works overtime when needed, without being asked. This means the
engaged retail clerk picks up the trash on the store floor, even if the boss
isn’t watching. This means the TSA agent will pull a bag suspicious bag to be
searched, even if it’s the last bag on their shift.
Engaged employees lead to better
business outcomes. In fact, according to Towers Perrin research companies with
engaged workers have 6% higher net profit margins, and according to Kenexa
research engaged companies have five times higher shareholder returns over five
years.
With such gains by having your
employees engaged into the company, you would think that company’s put a major
emphasis on such a goal and that . You would think that the majority of
employees are engaged into their company and that every company needs to work
to improve that number.
But that is not the case at all.
Only 13% of employees worldwide are
engaged at work, according to Gallup's new 142-country study on the State of
the Global Workplace. In other words, about one in eight workers -- roughly 180 million
employees in the countries studied -- are psychologically committed to their
jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.( By
Mauro Libi Crestani)
In a Nutshell
It's very difficult for managers to create a situation where their employees experience psychological empowerment, but the payoff is great for those who achieve it. If you want to increase your productivity, listen to Obama on this one bit of advice. Your employees are their building blocks of your company and if you can get them motivated and engaged into the company, your productivity results may soar like you never imagined. By Mauro Libi Crestani.
It's very difficult for managers to create a situation where their employees experience psychological empowerment, but the payoff is great for those who achieve it. If you want to increase your productivity, listen to Obama on this one bit of advice. Your employees are their building blocks of your company and if you can get them motivated and engaged into the company, your productivity results may soar like you never imagined. By Mauro Libi Crestani.
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