How can businesses make the workplace produce more effective
employees. Will an increase in pay lead to more productive employees? I think
it’s perhaps a good idea, if the business can afford it. Nevertheless, I think
there is more to having more productive employees. In this article, I will address
ideas I have come up with that I believe could lead to more effective
employees.
Foremost, I believe effective employees should be part of
the business model because I believe a business is as good as its employees. I believe
if employees reach a decent level of satisfaction in the workplace then a
business will obtain an even greater reputation by its future employees, constituents,
clients, and consumers.
My first idea examines the relationship with employees and
their boss. I think a huge reason for poor employees is because of
relationships with their boss. If a boss is more like a tyrant and less like a
leader, employee comfortably and willingness to increase productivity could be
met with discouragement. I believe a boss needs to understand what it means to
be a boss by knowing how to be a leader. Perhaps similar to a commanding
officer in the military. A boss needs to utilize a positive, outgoing,
motivational, disciplinary when necessary, rewarding, and any other principle a
leader uses. A boss that does so can become a role model for the rest of the
employees. It’s obvious nobody wants another person who’s a tyrant to trust
them to make the decision in which involves keeping them alive. A boss should
also consider the employees perspective, intentions, and reasons and that of
the business. Like a judge, they need to keep their eye on properties and also
make calls that balance and does justice to the needs of the company and of
their employees. If an employee enjoys and find satisfaction having a good or compliant
boss, they could have the desire to look up to the boss’s expectation and help
the business make more money.
My next idea involves employee relationships. I believe a
workplace should utilize more effective solutions for employee relations. It’s
expected for employees to be professional; however, this is not always the
case. Normally when there is employee relations dissatisfaction, an individual
would most likely contact their boss or higher authority. However, what if the
business model could do something about this. What if the business experimented
with regulations. An example can be such as letting the employees dress the way
they want or even something small such as playing music. Maybe allowing
flexibility in other areas of the business could get employees to feel more
comfortable, open up who they are, and establish a positive employee connection
with other employees. Perhaps this could lead to employees increasing
productivity and efficiency as they become more comfortable understanding each other.
Examining how this could also have the possibility to lead to something
negative. I think a good idea is also to have a jar where employees can write
down what they don’t like about other employees, of course leaving the messages
without individuals names, and the manager can utilize who can work with who
and what needs to be done to improve employee relations.
The next idea is over rewards. I believe the use of rewards
can increase employee productivity. An example can be bringing in gifts or food
to show the businesses appreciation for their employees. Another suggestion is
reward people if they do something out positive and of the ordinary that
benefits the business. For example, if someone calls in sick and wants someone
else to fill in their position, but they don’t want to, perhaps it’s a good
idea to reward them. Perhaps the severity of the circumstance should obtain a
reward of equal value.
This idea is fairly simple as it involves minor ideas of how
the employee could come up with ideas or suggestions for the business. My first
suggestion is the use of a suggestion sheet, where an employee can come up with
ideas for a business to increase employee efficiency, productivity, and comfort.
The next suggestion is the use of a white board where employees can have fun
drawing on a day to day basis. I believe little ideas and suggestions can make
employees more productive or more comfortable in the workplace.
My next idea is with the use of forms and charts. I believe the
use of forms can benefit business and employee relations. I believe a business
can use a form to calculate productivity, usefulness, and reliability of an
employee. By looking at this form, a business can examine how much a person
works, how hard they work, and if proven to be a hard worker, perhaps a raise
or more hours can be given. Another form can be used to calculate stress. Perhaps
this form should ask an employee about what is the source of their stress (perhaps
family, other employees, child, medical, parents, environment maintenance).
Perhaps the business can examine this form by all the employees and find a
solution in which to possibly improve one or many employee’s conditions. Perhaps examining the positions in the
business that deals with stress, a business can find ways to improve or reduce
stress. Perhaps examining an individual’s stress or circumstance, one can see
if they desire more hours. Moving on, I believe it’s a good idea to perhaps ask
how an employee is feeling every day and provide positive feedback for an
attempt to keep them motivated and focusing on the businesses’ tasks. Another
suggestion is the use of a competitive chart. An example can be such as in a restaurant
environment where employees can compete with one another as if it were a game.
Perhaps get a prize for payed days off or a quick (maybe two day weekend)
vacation. Furthermore, providing forms and calculating productivity, usefulness,
reliability and stress can help a business further understand or find solutions
to keeping their employees productive and comfortable.
Another suggestion for a business is examining the reason
why employees quit and create a plan to keep employees from quitting by finding
solutions.
My final suggestion is the change of employee perspective in
the business. Perhaps businesses can find ways to make employees create a
family-like environment or treat the businesses as if it was their own. By this perhaps employees can offer
suggestions to improve the business, help the business come up with ideas, or
have access to financial sheets and understanding the business structure and
find ways to improve the business. Of course this means that employees will
have access to the overall business model. This could be a risk as it could
mean an individual could take the business model, quit their current position,
and create a similar business themselves; therefore, with such an employee
structure, perhaps the use of agreements and legal security is necessary. Nonetheless,
with the use of this personalized employee-business structure, not only will
the business create employees, they will be creating an entity that could be forever
a part of an individual’s life as they stop being employees and begin operating
as a single business unit. Furthermore, not only will they gain experience in
the business they are in, they can also get the experience they need to create
and operate a business of their own.
These are my suggestions for improving employee productivity, effectiveness,
and perhaps comfortability. Perhaps they can be
utilized or perhaps not. I believe it’s with good intention to state my
opinions as it has the possibility to be usefulness to someone.
