TOP TIPS TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES

 

“Enthusiasm, Excitement, commitment, devotion, and creativity that an employee brings to the organization can be known as motivation”. Employee engagement almost always leads to higher productivity. To motivate the employees we should have a better understanding about each and every employee.

How to motivate employees

Every employee is different, and not the same things motivate them. Employee motivation is one of the biggest concerns among organizations across the world. Compared to unmotivated employees motivated employees are;

1.       Handle uncertainty better – much more motivated employees are more engaged, they are also more confident in what they do. They know how to face difficult conditions.

2.       Better problem solvers – problem solving skill s are most employers look for in their employees. If we have employees who are motivated, they will work harder to solve problems and challenges.

3.       They are proactive- motivated employees proactively look for solutions to face the challenges and achieve goals. They often evaluate their own works

4.       Are more productive – more motivated employees lead to more productivity. Those companies also more productive than others.

5.       Work harder to achieve the goals – In addition to work hard to achieve the organizational goals they work hard to achieve company’s goals.

6.       Are more innovative and creative - when employees are motivated and engaged, they think about innovative ideas that could help optimize business performance.

7.       Better team players - they are more likely to be team players than solo players.

8.       They are brand ambassadors - motivated employees are often emotionally connected to their companies. They can help you to increase awareness, boost sales and attract talent to your company.

9.       Have a good impact on other employees - some employees may have negative impact on others and they will create a negative culture.

10.   Show grater loyalty - loyal employees not only work hard for their pay but they are committed to the success of their company and they are motivated by contributing to the success.

Tips to motivate employees

Connect with your employees – good leaders are often able to connect with their employees on both personal and professional levels.

2.       Empower your employees – give employees more freedom to make decisions themselves. It is hard to be motivated when your whole job is about what other people tell you to do. Therefore employee empowerment is crucial to improve employee motivation.

3.       Address employee’s quality of life – need to care about the employees, quality of life and work life balance. We need to take care of the best performers. We need to think about both highly motivated and less motivated employees.

4.       Make sure to understand what motivates them – some employees prefer monetary rewards, some appreciation, recognition, not all are motivated by the same things.

5.       Implement learning and development program – we need to track the milestones and we need to implement different kinds of programs to enhance their skills and attitudes.

6.       Improve internal communications- all the employees should have good communication with each other. Then everybody can understand the others needs and values.

7.       Reward your employees - recognition and reward should be must in an organization. Make sure to reward your employees with something they value.

8.       Give structured feedbacks - positive or negative feedback is necessary. It helps to the employees for their personal improvement.

9.       Empower your employees - give freedom to employees to make decisions. It will help to motivate the employee.

10.   Build a positive work environment - the working place should be feel free to talk, feel valued, trust the leaders, have good relationship with others.

Conclusion

Performance reviews, employee motivation and engagement surveys, by conducting customer satisfaction surveys we can measure employee motivation. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a most popular theory. In this theory, motivation is the result of a person’s attempt at fulfilling basic needs. Lower level needs must be fulfilled before higher level needs can be met. This theory can also be applied to understand employee motivation in the workplace too.

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References

Atkinson, J. W.(1964) Introduction to motivation. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand

Antomioni, D. (1999), “What motivates middle managers”? Industrial Management

Vroom, V. H(1964) Work and motivation. New York: Wiley

Workplace motivation, a review of the literature, Roderic Gray (2000), published on the internet by, KumpaniaConsulting, www.kumpania.co.uk

Kanfer, R (1990) “Motivation Theory and Industrial and Organizational Psychology”

Friedlander, F. (1966) “Motivation to work and Organisational Performance”, Journal of Applied Psychology,

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