These are words from President Obama.
We are not going to debate the politics of this statement, which has caused a lot of debate. What I would like to discuss is how to increase a company’s productivity. If management does not trust its employees to do their job and they micromanage by trying to control every aspect of what their workers do. In such a case their productivity numbers will suffer.
It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?
Henry Ford fought for better wages for his employees.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
So Henry Ford believed that by treating an employee like a partner and paying them a top wage was the best thing for a company’s productivity.
The above is proven research. Yet despite this known fact, most employees are very unhappy with their present jobs and are just not engaged.
According to Forbes magazine, an engaged employees means, Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. This emotional commitment means engaged employees actually care about their work and their company. They don’t work just for a paycheck, or just for the next promotion, but work on behalf of the organization’s goals.
When employees care—when they are engaged—they use discretionary effort.
This means the engaged computer programmer works overtime when needed, without being asked. This means the engaged retail clerk picks up the trash on the store floor, even if the boss isn’t watching. This means the TSA agent will pull a bag suspicious bag to be searched, even if it’s the last bag on their shift.
Engaged employees lead to better business outcomes. In fact, according to Towers Perrin research companies with engaged workers have 6% higher net profit margins, and according to Kenexa research engaged companies have five times higher shareholder returns over five years.
With such gains by having your employees engaged into the company, you would think that company’s put a major emphasis on such a goal and that . You would think that the majority of employees are engaged into their company and that every company needs to work to improve that number.
But that is not the case at all.
Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup's new 142-country study on the State of the Global Workplace. In other words, about one in eight workers -- roughly 180 million employees in the countries studied -- are psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.( By Mauro Libi Crestani)
In a Nutshell
It's very difficult for managers to create a situation where their employees experience psychological empowerment, but the payoff is great for those who achieve it. If you want to increase your productivity, listen to Obama on this one bit of advice. Your employees are their building blocks of your company and if you can get them motivated and engaged into the company, your productivity results may soar like you never imagined. By Mauro Libi Crestani.
It's very difficult for managers to create a situation where their employees experience psychological empowerment, but the payoff is great for those who achieve it. If you want to increase your productivity, listen to Obama on this one bit of advice. Your employees are their building blocks of your company and if you can get them motivated and engaged into the company, your productivity results may soar like you never imagined. By Mauro Libi Crestani.
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