Do you think your employees are over promising and under achieving? Have you found your employees to sound passive almost all the times despite the fact that you as an HR or as the employer brand are stretching yourself to the extra miles? You find your employees usually stacked in their comfort zones and reluctant to take more responsibilities. If your answer had been yes to most of these questions, it is high time you need to take a sharp look at your employees and observe with keen eyes of what is wrong with them.
Jo satisfaction is a construct which is based on cognitive and emotional components. The affection that an employee receives from their peer groups and the job experiences is very integral to them which is cherished or brooded over involuntarily. Work involvement and hygienic work conditions are desired by the employees. Management designs to provide the same too but unfortunately it is reported to be insufficient by the employees. Intrinsic motivation and not the adherence to instructions are appreciated. An employee would be ethical to the job only when the organization has a quick and high penalty system of identification of the faults of the candidate. This agile system of employee integrity check would make the employees true to their task target and one of the strong indicators of job performance with satisfaction.
Read through the following tips to enhance job satisfaction for your employees where a feeling of not having enough but a feeling of being sufficient is created. Promoting training and education of employees with the pursuance of higher education programmes such as PGDM or Business Analytics courses along with extending learning in the field of Digital Marketing and Personality Grooming can go a long way in making an employee stable and successful given any work environment. Management colleges that provide rich learning experience generate confident and competent employees for organizations of all sizes and shapes.
Realize the significance:
Firstly, believe in that churning out satisfaction from the allocated tasks and work places is significant. Further, trigger team approaches in the minds of employees so that the humility which is a characteristic of services sector can be made a ground reality. Covid 19 revealed that work from home is a possibility for almost all work processes. Work from home is not only a signature aspect only for few but for everyone right from teachers to students. Being comfortable with the unknown is not an easy task but an art of the HR. As contagious as the virus of Covid, so is the positive virus of job satisfaction which is reflected as a component of organizational culture.
Pay and Work:
Linking work with pay is essential but should not be inferred as a burden by the employee. It is essential to motivate employees to perform better and more but at the same time non-achievement of the targets should guide them towards improvement zone and not lead to depression and demotivation. Deriving satisfaction from work is a personal skill and a decision. It is an attitude that makes one earn the feeling of fulfillment.
The reason that many a times employees feel dissatisfied is due to disproportion between work and money. Employees at the operational level have bigger family sizes to feed. They compromise on the quality of food, clothing and shelter and end up with poor work attitudes.
Though Maslow’s need of hierarchy depicted a pyramid of needs for motivation but the same I would say is no longer true. Multiple demands that run parallel almost all the time if not in real but in mind ruin mental and emotional health. This in turn leads to an increase in the stress level whereby deterioration in the quality of relationships is a flip side for anyone to witness. More of verbal attack and abuse becomes a part of daily conversation. The tone of the voice also leads to a peculiar disadvantage and is reflected in the personality of the employee.
Sales target are permanently attached to the frontline executives who feel burdened with the unachievable goals of serving the customer and asking them to buy more. The functions of cross selling and up selling more often than not deteriorates the level of satisfaction that an employee may have built with his altruistic approach of helping customers meet their needs.
Gratification of needs is though not essential for achievements but for sound and stable growth of an individual.
MS. JYOTI KUKREJA
Post: Assistant Professor
Jims Kalkaji
