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What Every Manager Should Know About How to Improve the Pride and Morale in Their Employees
by Etienne A Gibbs, MSW
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If, as the boss, you insist on doing all the thinking for your employees, or if everything has to be done your way, then you provide little opportunity for your employees to develop pride in their work or for them to develop and maintain positive morale.
However, creating such a work climate takes much management skills so that total control of the business is not lost. It also hinges on the content of a job and the judgment and ability of the person handling it.
Improving pride and morale in employees is not difficult; it calls for a concerned approach. Consider implementing these techniques:
* Managing by Objectives: Give your especially capable people a clear idea of the results you want to achieve and leave the methods to them.
* Suggesting Ideas: Rather than ruling as a dictator to your employees, use the softer approach of feeding suggestions to them with the understanding that they are free to devise something else which works better for the benefit of the entire organization.
* Delegating Decisions: Enrich their jobs by delegating decisions down the line. Don't just delegate indiscriminately; delegate according to your employees' interests and needs, when possible.
* Encouraging Constructive Suggestions: Guide them to think of constructive suggestions rather than simply presenting them yourself.
* Eliminating Needless Rules: Doing so will allow them the freedom to think constructively and creatively. When they think creatively, the ideas will keep flowing.
* Allowing Mobility: Do so; as long as your employees produce beneficial results and their methods do not interfere with others, the organization, or the business.
Bosses who successfully practice these techniques foster excellent employee morale. When you improve the morale of your employees without abdicating your responsibility or without losing control, you'll have highly productive employees.
Remember: When you maximize your potential and help others to maximize theirs, everyone wins. When you don't, we all lose.
© Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW
Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer, conducts lectures, seminars, webinars, and writes articles on his theme: "... helping you maximize your potential." For more information visit www.MaximizingYourPotential.blogspot.com, or email him at execandgroup-consulting@yahoo.com.
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