With changing times as Personnel Management became Talent Management, employee wellness has becomes the focus for any HR Manager. Organizations too have realized that though employees are governed my labor laws but ultimately they are major stakeholders in its organic growth. This paradigm shift has brought a major challenge of keeping employee motivated and engaged within the organizations. More opportunities and technologies have resulted in competitive strategies to have more happy faces around.
However like physicists say ‘ No machine can have perfect efficiency’ likewise hitting a perfect 10/10 can be a farfetched dream but still there are ways to measure your engagement quotient and timely action can make just turn around stuff.
Best and the most well
known is to analyze your exit
reports and keep a tab on that deadly attrition factor. Resignations not only adds to ones blood
pressure but replacement too come with added cost .So why not channelize the
energy and finances on more productive side which can help keep the
attrition counts stay low and engagement high.
Remember
what made college better than school? Well college didn’t have any uniform.
Truly burden of strict policies such as reporting time sometimes can be highly
annoying. Employee are truly engaged if they come on time because they love being at office not because they
have late marks counter on.
Do
your employees doze off or try to bunk those open forums addressed by the CEO
or founder? So next time make sure it’s more interactive. They deserve to know
where the organization is heading and let them feel like a family only then they would give their best to you.How about the last appraisal process? How many reminders did you send to the managers? Do they believe in the appraisal process or is it just another formality for them. Processes can give us some very critical information’s about the employee motivation.
Once somebody suggested about having a ‘Smilometer’ , which can help us tracks smiles in day. Indeed more laughter and friendly behavior on floor suggests that it a happy place to work and smiles are always infectious J
My personal experience says an engaged and motivated employee will always. The feeling of pride to be associated with one’s dream company is too good a motivator and also helps spreading the feeling around.A happy employee would love to refer more of his friends to join the gang. So you know when employee referrals are low what needs to be done.
Mostly HR faces challenge of maintaining salary confidentiality and more employees are stressed and frustrated every discussion boils around their favorite topic. If they are monetarily satisfied and happily engaged there are no reasons for you to worry on your strict and confidential information to go public.
Have you noticed who all regularly miss annual day celebrations or office parties? It’s similar to avoiding a dinner because your don’t like the host. Do I need to say more?
Trust in management and feeling of belonginess plays a great role too. If an employees is participative and know that his ideas and efforts will be well appreciated and acknowledged, he would be well bounded with the organization values and philosophy .However this comes with due course and here timely and right communication channel is very important.
Keep a tab on informal and ‘online and social media’ discussions. Technology has opened many avenues for official gossips. Understanding employee psychology and behavior helps to understand their needs and leads to timely actions and further improvements.
Employee Engagement is need of the hour. Today keeping talent motivated and happy is important so that focus on organizational growth is undeterred. Important is to understand that every organization and individual is unique. What works with one might not click with others .But the beauty is to manage complex human brains in the most simplified manner.
However we all know that nobody is married to an organization but being engaged is no less than that !!
Wish you Happy Engagement J
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