How can the workforce make more effective employees?

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.