Keep Your Employees Happy to augment Productivity.

You might have heard the statement made by elderly people that when parents are happy, the entire family is happy.  However, that identical statement may be interpreted over to the workplace by saying, “When the employees are happy, the entire organization is happy.” The quandary is that most business owners, management people seldom understand this liaison, and even very few people know how to keep their employees in point of fact. Let’s examine this concern and prove how trouble-free and gainful it is to make your employees more contented.

According to Johna Revesencio of Fast Company, the incentive for organizations is pretty obvious. “[Research shows] that the brain works much better when a person is feeling positive,” he writes. “At those times, individuals tend to be more creative and better at solving problems.”

The Harvard Business Review recently published an analysis of various studies that showed an average of 31 percent more productivity and 37 percent higher sales when employees are happy or satisfied. Another study which is conducted by economists at the University of Warwick found that happiness leads to a 12 percent increase in productivity. It also found that unhappy workers are 10 percent less productive than content employees.

According to a very recent research, an increase in job satisfaction is openly related to a 6.6 percent increase in productivity per hour. This may seem like a noticeable avowal, truly makes out an irrefutable bond between these two ideas. It certainly wasn’t the last, though.

But why does happiness and satisfaction impact productivity? Well, there isn’t a single answer. Most studies have found that contentment is good for the following reasons:

 One has to remember the fact  that the  way out to a  successful  business or any economic activity  means not only focusing on the customers’ needs and wants but one must make sure  that their employees are well taken care of. Here an attempt has been made to suggest a few cushy and effectual resolutions to help keep your employees happy and productive!

• Constructive Criticism: Providing   constructive criticism facilitates employees in the expected trend, it is important to recognize talents, initiations, leadership qualities and other skill sets your employees possess. Admit them individually and verbally Wishing them only the best in every future endeavors of them without hesitation.

• Build a trust:  Assign the accountability without much micromanaging. Once you infuse more trust, you both will learn. Never use Threat Therapy to get your work done. Value their innovative ideas.

• Manage Work Life Balance: Ask employees to carryout work or the given assignments efficiently. Never compel them to work on weekends, being employer you please respect their family life. Motivate your employees to be the champions of both personal and professional life.
• . Make your employees feel valued: Don’t hide anything before employees unless it is quintessentially confidential.Dont be so reluctant to inform the successful  team that due to their hard work and dedication the organization has reached the important milestone. Communicate the company’s future goals for the upcoming months or years. This will certainly make the employees feel valued and make obvious to them that their commitment and determination is going towards something value addition to the company.

Promote breaks

 Expecting good work employees is quite common. But never treat employees as machines. They are the only living assets of the organizations. Encourage them to take breaks. By allowing employees to take a breather, they’ll be more productive and come back to work with a focused mindset.

• Prop up innovation and Creativity

The best way to involve your employees in building an impact towards the organization as a whole is to permit them to be Inno-creative.Let them try methods and tools of their own to achieve a sense of novelty in their work. By experimenting on this, an individual or the whole team will come to know what works and what does not. It certainly makes understand the present challenges of the work.

• Take genuine interest employees’ passion.

Usually the bosses keep always themselves busy in instructing the employees on what should be done next. Please remember, it is also essential to get to know something about their skill sets and passion. Taking genuine interest in understanding employees as individuals is crucial to run your business. Bosses must have an idea about what areas they excel in and how they can use those passions in their favor to help their business grow.

• No Hovering Please

As a business owner or manager there’s a fighting fit line between hovering and ignoring employees. You evidently need to keep an eye on what your employees are doing to make sure they are being industrious and following normal code of behavior, but you ought to avoid hovering. Employees may get restless and flustered when superiors are steadily observing them. This considerably kills efficiency and at the same time hampers employee satisfaction.

• Allow Personalisation

Permit employees to decorate their cubicles and offices as they please. Kindly reserve time for brainstorming sessions and team building exercises. These could be the finest platforms for employees to express themselves–which goes a long way towards being satisfied in a job.

• Work from Home is the best option.

 Give your blessing employees to sporadically work from home shows them trust. It also allows them to get away the monotony of the same Eight-to-Six job routine. By altering up their work environment, they’re able to improve creativity and output. If telecommuting isn’t an option, consider astounding start times so that employees don’t have to fight rush hour traffic–which frustrates employees and can alter the start or end of their workday.

• Competitive Benefits and Perks

Many times money speaks the loudest. But focus on the other side of happiness by providing employees competitive benefits and perks; you can actually buy their happiness and satisfaction. Competitive benefits include insurance; flex time, personal days, paid holidays, discounts on products and services, casual dress days, new technology, comfortable work spaces and more.

• Respect Your Employees

Above all else, you should respect your employees. The word respect costs nothing, but is held in high regard by employees at all levels.  Treating your employees like family members, not as hired labor. Employees will perceive this and linger much more satisfied with their positions. “Keep your expectations high and let your employees know you have every confidence in their ability to meet, and exceed them,” says author Frances Cole Jones.

Author:

Dr. Giri Yaralakattimath,
Founder, Center for Nurturing Human Capital
Assistant Professor, Department of MBA
Siddaganga Institute of Technology,
Tumakuru -572101, Karnataka, India.