10 Ways You Should Treat Your Employees to Enhance Their Productivity

“If you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers and your business will take care of itself.”

– J W Marriott

A workplace provides for an interactive environment where employers and employees co-exist working on a common goal, i.e. the organization's goal. Any organization banks upon its employees to run itself smoothly, thus employees are the greatest assets for any company. To keep your employees and to get the best out of them, you need to treat them wisely and make them feel an important part of the organization.

When management keenly takes interest in their employees and invest its time and resources in their betterment, they offer the employees an environment where they increase their productivity and contribute to the organization’s growth and success.

But often organization overlook a few things which make them lose out on good employees or a drop in the employee productivity levels. Let’s have a look at the common mistakes first, which usually organizations make, which make them lose good employees or lower productivity issues:

§  Implementing unnecessary rules: Every organization has a defined set of rules. There is no harm with rules unless they are absolutely unnecessary. Implementing superfluous rules will make them employees feel burdened and this can reduce their interest in the work and organization. They might look to switch companies.

§  Not paying attention to hikes and promotions: everyone is working for money. Employees work with sincerity for the organization and in turn expect good remuneration. To enhance their productivity, it is very essential to retain their interest in their work. Salary hikes and promotions are very good techniques to retain your best resources. But many organizations often overlook his factor. Providing hikes keep employees satisfied and they think that they are being paid wisely for their efforts.

§  Forgetting to acknowledge accomplishments: There are various theories that suggest that everybody has a desire to be acknowledged and appreciated. When organizations fail to recognize the efforts of their employees and their achievements, it demotivates the employees and productivity levels. Rewarding your employees shows that you are noticing their efforts. A simply said ‘well done’ can work wonders for you.

§  Treating everyone the same: Well, this technique might look like the wisest one, but sadly it is not. Every organization has a mixed bag of employees performing with different levels of sincerity and giving varied outputs. If you treat everyone the same, this gives a message to your top performers that whatever they do, they will be on the same page as others and would not be given any special reward or attention. This might demotivate them. Don't differentiate employees on the basis of their position/role or another basis, but make sure that good employees don’t feel neglected.

§  Not letting employees go after their passion: Often the best performing employees are passionate. Organizations often hesitate in letting the employees go after their passion and restrict them and want them to work in a limited sphere, with a fear that employees shall lose focus. It results in lower levels of employee productivity.

§  All work and no play: Your employees cannot perform their best if they feel bored at work. Making the workplace fun and interactive enhances employees’ creativity, productivity, and motivation. Most organizations focus only on the work part and ignore the need for a light and cheerful environment.

To sum it up, employees never leave organizations, they leave bad bosses and managers who fail to treat them wisely and overburden them with work without paying attention to their needs, desires, and accomplishments.

How can you ensure an increased productivity level of your employees?

The key to this is the right way of treating your employees so that they feel motivated to work and enjoy their work at the workplace.

Mentioned below are a few ways in which you can increase employee productivity:

1.      Appreciate your employees

Always appreciate and respect your employees. If there are any concerns with any employee then as a manager/supervisor, you should try to resolve it. Try to get feedback from employees to keep a track of how things are going. Respecting and appreciating employees will keep them motivated and a cordial relationship between the organization and the employees, thus, enhancing productivity.

2.      Helping in professional growth and techniques to survive in the business

Helping your employees in their professional growth is an excellent means to keep them hooked and motivated to their work and the organization. Exposing them to difficult choices and business situations will help them various skills required to survive in business and corporate. Share the responsibilities with them along with the required authority. Make them understand the value of delivery work timely. Establish an example in front of your employees, be the one. Though they might leave at some point, you will earn a brownie point for your efforts.

3.      Consider revising your hiring criteria

Do you hire someone just based on their experience and skills? Do you not consider the attitude of the candidates while hiring? If yes, then it’s time to re-think and change your hiring criteria. Hire candidates with a good attitude for work rather than just skills. While skills and other technicalities can be learned with training and time, an attitude is what stays on forever, unchanged. An employee with good skills but a bad attitude will have a negative impact on the work environment and the work shall also suffer. There might be other problems as well.

4.      Offer employees opportunities for growth

Employees help organizations in reaching their goal. The organizations should also contribute to the growth of their employees. Give employees new projects to work on and should be divided in proper teams with each team member getting equal opportunity to learn and perform. This will help in employee learning and skill building. Conduct training sessions, workshops and seminars. This is an excellent way to keep your employees updated and make them learn new skills, hence, improving their efficiency.

5.      Flexible work timings

In the workaholic era, where business have a pile of work to do and endless projects, the concept of Worklife balance is gaining popularity. Employees often stretch their working hours to complete a task. Increased workload has given birth to increased stress levels, physical and mental issues, etc. While you cannot cut down on the work and cannot compromise with your business goals, you can certainly offer flexible work timings to your employees. This will reduce their stress and increase productivity and creativity. This will work as a bonus point for your organization and will help in employee retainment and goodwill enhancement.

6.      Understand the value of feedback

Everyone has flaws. You must be accepting of it. The best way to know how you can improve is to get a feedback from your employees on what they think of you as an organization and what are their grievances, suggestions and ideas. Also, the personal grievances or issues of employees should be taken an account of. This will make employees feel as an integral part of the organization and at the same time will help you improve yourself as an organization and have a better employee management.

7.      Communicating makes it easy

The importance of communication can never be overlooked, be it any sphere of life. An effective communication set-up at your workplace can be very profitable for organization and the employees. Better communication helps in knowing your employees better. You can be informed of the employees’ opinions, thoughts and perspectives. Employees will also feel connected and valued.

8.      Make them learn to be a lion on the battleground

What we mean here is not that you need to turn your employees into a fighting bull, but a warrior of their own battle. Develop them in a way that they can face the difficulties, challenges and stress that their work brings to them. Prepare them for the toughest situations. They should not freeze when any difficulties come and should not be distracted from their goals. They should be fearless and daring enough to take up new challenges. They should know how to raise their opinion and speak when it is required to. They should be trained in way that even if something wrong goes with you, they would still be employable. This would work in favor of you and will build your reputation in minds of the employees. This would build confidence in them and thus productivity will increase.

9.      Adhere to business ethics and be transparent

Playing dirty tricks on your employees will get you nowhere. You should be transparent to your employees and should not deceive them in any way or the other. Stick to business ethics and do work with a proper procedure and follow all the protocols yourself. Be a professional organization if you want your employees to behave the same. Stay very clear of the company policies and clearly state the rules. No going back on the words. This will instill a positivity in employees.

10.  Get your force together

United we stand, divided we fall! Every employee is an integral part of your organization and you should work on coordinating your employees and moving ahead taking everyone along. A united team is bound to perform much better than a team divided and dealing with too many differences. Individual differences do exist, and you should work on fixing them in a way that they don’t into the way of your work.

Concluding remarks

Employees are the most crucial part for an organization and help in growth of a business. Every organization wishes for smart, capable, efficient, creative and productive employees. For this to happen, organization too needs to make an effort to understand their employees and treat them wisely.

Your employees are as important as your clients. Address their needs and issues and work in harmony to achieve business and individual goals.

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We hope that the points mentioned above would help you in increasing the productivity of your employees and achieve better results. To know more about us, write to us at hello@turacoz.in