Dear All,
Kindly assist me on how to motivate employees to be more productive. We already appreciate them by having a 'Week of the Employee' and 'Month of the Employee'. We also provide special services to ensure their happiness.
Kindly help me out.
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K. Yadav
From India, Visakhapatnam
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Kindly assist me on how to motivate employees to be more productive. We already appreciate them by having a 'Week of the Employee' and 'Month of the Employee'. We also provide special services to ensure their happiness.
Kindly help me out.
Regards,
K. Yadav
From India, Visakhapatnam
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Hi,
That's a good idea. You can also have open conversations with employees. I have often seen that talking with employees always motivates them to work hard. Another suggestion is to have a discussion or an open house meeting once a month. The company can also give appreciation certificates for special tasks. These are some ideas...
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11That's a good idea. You can also have open conversations with employees. I have often seen that talking with employees always motivates them to work hard. Another suggestion is to have a discussion or an open house meeting once a month. The company can also give appreciation certificates for special tasks. These are some ideas...
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Only Certificates won't help. You need to engage your employees by planning some fun or social activities. This shall help in team building. Don't offer too much recognition (e.g., week of employee, month of employee, day, hour, second, etc.). Sometimes an acknowledgment in front of coworkers also works wonders. At other times, we need to give rewards or incentives for motivation. Of course, your objectives for such rewards or incentives must be realistic and attainable. Show them the group goals or organization goals to be attained and a brief idea about how each department's role is contributing towards the common organizational goal, which shall help performance-based pay. Also, introduce some form of healthy competition which actually helps performance.
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Dear Kalpana Yadav,
What motivates employees?
1. Money
2. Recognition
3. Rewards
It is a complex exercise to recognize what motivates employees. We cannot derive a common formula and apply the same across the board in the organization. Then how to arrive at it? Discussing, spending time, making personal sacrifices in life, and ensuring attendance at family functions of employees if you are invited to have a feel of their status. Moreover, when you attend such functions, you will be able to identify distinct tribes within your organization (by tribes, I mean groups). This will be a valuable source of information as an HR professional.
For example, if you attend a wedding in an employee's house, you will be able to assess the financial status of the brothers and sisters of the employee. If the status of your employee is on par or higher, then money may not be the motivating factor for him. But, on the other hand, if the status is below them, money could be a motivating factor (please remember I have used "could be" and not "will be").
There will be a lot of information available on the shop floor regarding the expectations of different employees, and you need to tap into these resources. Be aware that you distinguish information from rumors as well. This is because once employees sense that you are tapping information, false inputs may also be seeded into the system.
One of the most important factors that go unnoticed is the improper grievance redressal procedure. Show genuine concern in listening (not merely hearing) to employee grievances. Sometimes they are so trivial that you can sort them out yourself. Examples may include the non-availability of first aid materials in the first aid box, improper functioning of the swipe card system, non-updation of leave entries, etc. Addressing these issues will bring people closer to you.
I am not an expert in Organizational Behavior but have learned over the years. Rewards, recognitions are certainly motivating factors, but all the assessments that lead to these must be transparent.
Best regards,
M.V. Kannan
From India, Madras
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What motivates employees?
1. Money
2. Recognition
3. Rewards
It is a complex exercise to recognize what motivates employees. We cannot derive a common formula and apply the same across the board in the organization. Then how to arrive at it? Discussing, spending time, making personal sacrifices in life, and ensuring attendance at family functions of employees if you are invited to have a feel of their status. Moreover, when you attend such functions, you will be able to identify distinct tribes within your organization (by tribes, I mean groups). This will be a valuable source of information as an HR professional.
For example, if you attend a wedding in an employee's house, you will be able to assess the financial status of the brothers and sisters of the employee. If the status of your employee is on par or higher, then money may not be the motivating factor for him. But, on the other hand, if the status is below them, money could be a motivating factor (please remember I have used "could be" and not "will be").
There will be a lot of information available on the shop floor regarding the expectations of different employees, and you need to tap into these resources. Be aware that you distinguish information from rumors as well. This is because once employees sense that you are tapping information, false inputs may also be seeded into the system.
One of the most important factors that go unnoticed is the improper grievance redressal procedure. Show genuine concern in listening (not merely hearing) to employee grievances. Sometimes they are so trivial that you can sort them out yourself. Examples may include the non-availability of first aid materials in the first aid box, improper functioning of the swipe card system, non-updation of leave entries, etc. Addressing these issues will bring people closer to you.
I am not an expert in Organizational Behavior but have learned over the years. Rewards, recognitions are certainly motivating factors, but all the assessments that lead to these must be transparent.
Best regards,
M.V. Kannan
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There are six areas you need to focus on to motivate the employees. When you improve employee perception in these areas, motivation and performance go up.
1. Hope for the future: Does the company have a bright future? Do I have a bright future in the company?
2. Stability: Does this organization provide me with a stable job and working environment?
3. Trust: Can I trust my organization, manager, colleagues, and team?
4. Belonging and team spirit: Do I belong to the team? Am I valued, recognized, respected, and supported?
5. Compensation and benefits: Am I rewarded and compensated well?
6. Opportunity to play to strengths: Do I get the opportunity to do and showcase what I do well?
If you want to know more about this, write to me at
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1. Hope for the future: Does the company have a bright future? Do I have a bright future in the company?
2. Stability: Does this organization provide me with a stable job and working environment?
3. Trust: Can I trust my organization, manager, colleagues, and team?
4. Belonging and team spirit: Do I belong to the team? Am I valued, recognized, respected, and supported?
5. Compensation and benefits: Am I rewarded and compensated well?
6. Opportunity to play to strengths: Do I get the opportunity to do and showcase what I do well?
If you want to know more about this, write to me at
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In Government organization, employees of the specific categories believed that, the organization should pay him even if they wont work.
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It's important to identify the factors that are responsible for demotivation before introducing any strategy. There can be reasons for demotivation, such as internal dynamics existing within the employees (office politics, as they say) or monotony of work. Planning a small outing may help alleviate it. However, it is essential to share your views about work with them in an open forum. This will give you a lead to identify the reason behind demotivation and address it accordingly. Often, we plan strategies at our level, but the beneficiaries hardly understand their importance. Try making your approach more participatory. All the best!
Prajakta.
From India, Pune
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Hello,
This is from my personal experience and expectation, as I am also an employee. Perhaps it could be of your assistance.
1) Educate on Organization growth: Organization should impart trainings (quarterly/as appropriate) to educate employees on their achievements and future goals and plans to achieve them.
2) Employee growth: Organization should make their employee to realize what are the opportunities for their growth in the organization.
3) Work environment: team sprit, feel of is a part of team, valued, appreciated and rewarded.
4) Scope of improvement: Management should scrutinize their employees lacking area and should give a opportunity to arise by imparting required trainings, which could allow them to grow further and avail promotions, reorganization, etc.
5) Freedom: their ideas, opinions and innovations should be welcomed
6) Employee Friendly: People in higher management should be in reach of employee. Should always be open to hear not only listen their employees concerns and therefore to resolve them.
7) Utmost important… Personal touch: we all are emotional people and also we spent more time of the day at Office than at Home
Hence it’s always expected that Organization CARE for their employees.
· Should celebrate occasions with all employees,
· If invited should not miss out attending personal functions,
· The leave policy in practice should be contented to employees
Again, there would be many more ways that can be used to motivate employees. But the bottom line, I feel that may Organization follow any policies but those FIRSTLY should be employee friendly.
Thanks & regards,
Hari Meharchandani
From India, Hyderabad
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This is from my personal experience and expectation, as I am also an employee. Perhaps it could be of your assistance.
1) Educate on Organization growth: Organization should impart trainings (quarterly/as appropriate) to educate employees on their achievements and future goals and plans to achieve them.
2) Employee growth: Organization should make their employee to realize what are the opportunities for their growth in the organization.
3) Work environment: team sprit, feel of is a part of team, valued, appreciated and rewarded.
4) Scope of improvement: Management should scrutinize their employees lacking area and should give a opportunity to arise by imparting required trainings, which could allow them to grow further and avail promotions, reorganization, etc.
5) Freedom: their ideas, opinions and innovations should be welcomed
6) Employee Friendly: People in higher management should be in reach of employee. Should always be open to hear not only listen their employees concerns and therefore to resolve them.
7) Utmost important… Personal touch: we all are emotional people and also we spent more time of the day at Office than at Home
Hence it’s always expected that Organization CARE for their employees.
· Should celebrate occasions with all employees,
· If invited should not miss out attending personal functions,
· The leave policy in practice should be contented to employees
Again, there would be many more ways that can be used to motivate employees. But the bottom line, I feel that may Organization follow any policies but those FIRSTLY should be employee friendly.
Thanks & regards,
Hari Meharchandani
From India, Hyderabad
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Hi,
From my past experiences, we organized the quarterly communication session initiated by HR. It is the communication session attended by all staff. The topics are the current challenges faced by each department that are "good to know" by others. Each department should randomly appoint someone from their team to present the topics.
With this activity, we hope to achieve the following:
1. Everyone will be aware of the situation within the company and be motivated to participate.
2. The staff appointed will feel appreciated by the company for presenting.
Thanks,
Johnson Panggabean
Indonesia
From Indonesia, Surabaya
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From my past experiences, we organized the quarterly communication session initiated by HR. It is the communication session attended by all staff. The topics are the current challenges faced by each department that are "good to know" by others. Each department should randomly appoint someone from their team to present the topics.
With this activity, we hope to achieve the following:
1. Everyone will be aware of the situation within the company and be motivated to participate.
2. The staff appointed will feel appreciated by the company for presenting.
Thanks,
Johnson Panggabean
Indonesia
From Indonesia, Surabaya
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Electrozens Services Deal in Employee Efficiency Growth Program (EEGP) contact us at Rajeev 0522-2702990
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We are listing associates name on board for "Top Performer of the week". By acknoledging their efforts towards organisation through email that will help them in their appraisals Sharad
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Hello everyone,
Recently, I have joined this site. HR employee recognition is most important when dealing with low-productivity personnel. To motivate them, we need to initiate employee engagement programs.
From India, Rajsamand
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Recently, I have joined this site. HR employee recognition is most important when dealing with low-productivity personnel. To motivate them, we need to initiate employee engagement programs.
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Dear Prajakta & Hari Meharchandani I am 100% agree with both of you, first we shoul find out the area or rute cause of demotivation as syas Prajakta than plan accordingly as says Hari. Regards, Arun
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In any organization, demotivation comes from two things: one is NEED and the other is GREED. Though we cannot satisfy both, the need and greed can be used as a motivational tool.
Another way of looking at this is to identify what kind of person he/she is. A dominating person always gets motivated by power/authority, etc., whereas a highly compliant person can be motivated by a proper understanding of the profile and set rules and regulations.
For further details, discuss with any expert in DISC behavior as they may guide you better. Just keep in mind that motivation should come from within; otherwise, people will try to find excuses for getting demotivated.
For any specific cases, you can email me at tools_bangalore@rediffmail.com.
With best wishes,
Vasudev
Director - Training & Mentoring
TOOLS Academy for personal excellence
From India, Bangalore
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Another way of looking at this is to identify what kind of person he/she is. A dominating person always gets motivated by power/authority, etc., whereas a highly compliant person can be motivated by a proper understanding of the profile and set rules and regulations.
For further details, discuss with any expert in DISC behavior as they may guide you better. Just keep in mind that motivation should come from within; otherwise, people will try to find excuses for getting demotivated.
For any specific cases, you can email me at tools_bangalore@rediffmail.com.
With best wishes,
Vasudev
Director - Training & Mentoring
TOOLS Academy for personal excellence
From India, Bangalore
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It's important to identify the factors that are responsible for demotivation before introducing any strategy. There are many ways that can be used to motivate employees. However, the bottom line is that any organization should follow policies that are employee-friendly.
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Rohit Stephen
Business Development Services
Vendor Development
From India, Amritsar
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Best Regards,
Rohit Stephen
Business Development Services
Vendor Development
From India, Amritsar
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Hi Kalpana,
To motivate employees to be more productive:
a) Encourage them to complete their work before the deadline, and the entire team will be rewarded. This will also carry an added incentive during salary reviews.
b) Inform employees that increased productivity will lead to more advanced training opportunities, and they will have the chance to meet the core team that initiated the project.
c) Suggest that employees plan a timetable to finish their work, ensuring they do not get bored while working.
Regards,
Manish
+919248006651
From India, Hyderabad
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To motivate employees to be more productive:
a) Encourage them to complete their work before the deadline, and the entire team will be rewarded. This will also carry an added incentive during salary reviews.
b) Inform employees that increased productivity will lead to more advanced training opportunities, and they will have the chance to meet the core team that initiated the project.
c) Suggest that employees plan a timetable to finish their work, ensuring they do not get bored while working.
Regards,
Manish
+919248006651
From India, Hyderabad
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I totally agree with you Kannan. Having started as an executive and now as a Leadership Development Manager, I have been on both sides of the fence. Over the years, I have seen and experienced for myself that it is the little gestures that make an employee. After a point, money and incentives are no longer the sole motivators to bring out performance. It's the personal bond we build with them by acknowledging and recognizing the little things like applauding good performance, checking on their health when they call in sick, organizing fun activities once in a while, having themes during festive times (dress codes, games), and wishing them on their special occasions (birthdays, anniversaries), etc., that go a long way in making an employee feel important and motivated.
Additionally, assigning collaterals to those interested in growth, and having in-house programs that encourage employee development are a few things that are sure to make employees more productive.
I would like to reiterate, money and perks alone do not suffice for good employee morale. We are dealing with humans, and each of us wants to feel important in others' lives.
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Additionally, assigning collaterals to those interested in growth, and having in-house programs that encourage employee development are a few things that are sure to make employees more productive.
I would like to reiterate, money and perks alone do not suffice for good employee morale. We are dealing with humans, and each of us wants to feel important in others' lives.
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finaly for employee money matters for employees if u are not giving some money all ur certificate adn recognition goes in vein.
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Hi everyone, I'm Garima. This discussion was very nice. I have got to know various new ways to motivate employees. Very nice. Being a student, I'm very delighted after reading your valuable thoughts. Thank you all.
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Dear,
Motivation is very subjective and can be individual-specific. One has to find out the individual needs that satisfy them and what will motivate them. Your approach shall depend on each individual to be motivated. Each of your employees would be motivated differently than giving a management fundamental. So, be yourself in judging and selecting the motivational approach for each member of the team.
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Sajjad Kadri
Honeywell International India Ltd
ADI - Division
Ahmedabad
From India, Mumbai
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Motivation is very subjective and can be individual-specific. One has to find out the individual needs that satisfy them and what will motivate them. Your approach shall depend on each individual to be motivated. Each of your employees would be motivated differently than giving a management fundamental. So, be yourself in judging and selecting the motivational approach for each member of the team.
Regards,
Sajjad Kadri
Honeywell International India Ltd
ADI - Division
Ahmedabad
From India, Mumbai
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Hi,
There are many ways or steps to motivate employees, for example:
Organize management events according to the situation and culture of your company:
1. Games and sports:
- Slow cycle competition, cricket, etc.
2. Competitions:
- Slogan/painting/quiz competitions on safety, productivity, quality, social, political, general knowledge, etc.
3. Seminars for half an hour on Women's Day, Environment Day, Safety Day, etc.
4. Any cultural program and try to involve only workers/employees, not outsiders.
5. One week of yoga/meditation classes for half an hour, etc.
I have already organized and enjoyed these activities, in addition to incentive schemes, when I was the GM (HR) at JBM Ltd, Omax, etc., creating a healthy and peaceful environment.
From India, New Delhi
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There are many ways or steps to motivate employees, for example:
Organize management events according to the situation and culture of your company:
1. Games and sports:
- Slow cycle competition, cricket, etc.
2. Competitions:
- Slogan/painting/quiz competitions on safety, productivity, quality, social, political, general knowledge, etc.
3. Seminars for half an hour on Women's Day, Environment Day, Safety Day, etc.
4. Any cultural program and try to involve only workers/employees, not outsiders.
5. One week of yoga/meditation classes for half an hour, etc.
I have already organized and enjoyed these activities, in addition to incentive schemes, when I was the GM (HR) at JBM Ltd, Omax, etc., creating a healthy and peaceful environment.
From India, New Delhi
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