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why is it important to have motivated employees

Motivation is directly proportional to productivity, unless your employee is highly disciplined he wont be productive if he was not motivated, unmotivated employees usually start to seek another job somewhere else which reduces their sense of belonging to your company and makes them less keen on doing the work correctly, and even after they leave company you will realize that you have lost training cost that you spent on them.

ways of motivating employees at the workplace

The following are ways of motivating employees at the work place, it may be hard to satisfy all of these conditions but at least try to do some of them:

• know their different needs: know the different needs of your employees, each employee have got his own needs that may be much different from the others, and he wont get motivated unless you satisfy this need, for example people who work for money will never get satisfied by empowerment or promotion compared to increasing their salaries, type A’s will hate work that takes a big amount of their precious time , a Type A person may enjoy a boring repetitive task that takes less time compared to a creative task that takes more time, people who work for job satisfaction may not be satisfied by increasing their salaries compared to the satisfaction they will get when having a satisfying job. One of the main tasks of your Human resources department should be assessing the different needs of your employees in order to know how to satisfy them all using the least cost.
• properly assign tasks: if the human resources department did a poor job in assigning the right person to the right place the employee may lose motivation, after all someone who is over qualified for a job or who feels that he deserves better than his current position will not be motivated to work.
• employee appraisal : employee appraisal is very important, it anchors the the reward the employee gets to his good performance and so he puts this level of perfromance as a standard to which he tries to abide to. Again appraisal should be done according to his needs and not according to the company’s policy.
• meet his expectations: if the employee did something good and expected something then got less than what he expected he may lose motivation, make sure to assess the expectations of your employees in order to satisfy them.
• provide a way for relief: if your employees work for 8 hours, and if you know that it only takes 6 hours to finish their work, what’s the point in disabling chatting programs, web browsing or any other method that provides a relief? By enabling such things (without announcing that they are enabled) the employee will be happy and he may think that he fooling you by using them and on the other side you will be knowing but acting as if you are not noticing it, these stuff provide a relief from hard work and so may prevent loss of motivation due to stress or frustration
• some other factors that could prevent motivation of employees there are some other reasons that could prevent motivation of employees like job insecurity, being pessimistic about the future of the company or loss of hope of being promoted of getting a salary increase. if any of these factors are present then make sure to do your best to get rid of them in order to raise you employees motivation
• let them set goals: goals ad plans are one of the very strong motivating factors, when your employee feels that he is moving towards achieving a certain goal he may get more motivated, know that he should set his own goals else he may not be motivated to achieve a goal that is set to him by someone else.
• remove other irritating factors : provide good lighting, fast pc’s and good air conditioners, although those factors wont increase motivation, their absence could put a weight on the motivation level of your employees.

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did that help?

yes,but why do the employee somtimes become Indifferent?

yes but why does the eomployee somtimes feel insecure about the job?

ok but tell me more about goal setting