Employee morale can affect company productivity and results
We all know that our personal struggles can impact our wellbeing. However, morale is not just about the individual. Your company’s work culture can also affect employee morale and productivity in surprising ways.
Overworked, stressed, and burnt-out are common phrases used by employees. In this article, we share ways you can change these negatives into positives. Such as balanced, productive, and satisfied so your employees’ morale is at an all-time high.
When improving morale within the workplace, we recommend you review the following:
The Issue: We found that one of the top attributes affecting morale in the workplace is the balance between work and life. With inflation and the global pandemic in the past few years, many employees have needed to find a new way to work that is not only suitable for them, but also their respective employer.
The Solution: Ensure your employees have a good work-life balance by allowing them time to tend to personal matters. Flexible working hours and support during difficult times can increase employee productivity. This also helps employees feel comfortable and stable in their work environment.
The Issue: Whatever you call it, the fit of the company is just as important to employees as the fit of the role. Employees are conscious of their employer’s ethics, values, expectations and goals, and look to ensure the company they work for aligns with their own.
The Solution: Therefore, companies must remain transparent within these areas and include their employees where possible. Ensuring everyone is on the same page with the same mission in mind will open channels for communication and reduce disloyalty or mistrust.
The Issue: Leadership is one of the most crucial contributors to morale. The right person within that role can build the team up, and the wrong person will break it down.
The Solution: Clear direction, effective communication, genuine interest within their team members’ wellbeing are all benchmarks of a good leader. Making sure management is not only wanting to be there, but wanting to be within that role is the best way to create and maintain a positive work environment.
The Issue: A lack of growth within the workplace will make employees feel undervalued. This can in turn affect their work ethic and mental health. Not having enough growth opportunity, or at least the opportunity to discuss growth closes doors for all.
The Solution: Nothing encourages productivity and creativity than showing interest in your employees’ progression. Regular 1-2-1s allow employees and employers to not only communicate what they both want, but how to get there. Therefore, ensuring learning and development programmes, space for feedback, and genuine interest in your employees’ growth will guarantee loyalty and job satisfaction.
The Issue: This is where companies fall short repeatedly. Not recognising the time, effort and dedication their employees have put into their work. Many employers systematically misplace their pride within the company and not their people. This can make employees feel overlooked in their efforts and may result in quiet quitting.
The Solution: Simple recognitions for employees’ great work encourages even greater work. Good feedback from line managers, employee of the month and even being named within company communications will show employees that their hard work is being valued. This, in turn, boosts the atmosphere within the workplace, and while it also creates light competition between peers, this is not a bad thing if team building is also a regular occurrence.
The Issue: Last on the list includes how easy it is for employees to conduct their roles. Maintaining up-to-date programming, tools and systems may sound easy, but ensuring employees are given the right processes to use these tools is not so much. The inability for employers to conduct their work in a timely manner or being given improper training will inevitably lead to reduced productivity and in severe cases resignation from the role altogether.
The Solution: Regular process and programming maintenance reviews are the best way to ensure your employees are given the right tools for the job. Making their day-to-day as efficiently as possible through training and retraining will ensure they not only know how to do their role to a high standard, but by also allowing feedback will ensure they are given the space to tell you what they need to keep that standard.
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