1. Leadership Team: plans, sets goals, provides guidance to, manages organization.
2. Motivation or Employee Morale Team: plans and carries out events and activities that build a positive spirit among employees. May plan employee lunches, company picnics, fund raising for ill employees. (Fun team)
3. Safety and Enviornmental Team: ensures the safety of employees in the work place.Recyclying and enviornmental policy reccommendations. Safety training, work place organization.
4. Employee Wellness Team: focuses on health and wellness of the employees. Create different fitness clubs such as running and walking on lunch breaks. Periodic testing of health issues such as high blood pressure.
5. Culture and Communication Team: works to define and create the defined company culture necessary for the success of your organization. Fosters two-way communication in your organization to ensure employee input up the chain of command. May sponser things like monthly newsletters and employee satisfaction surveys.
When employees see successful teams, more employees become interested in serving on the teams. The teams make the company a better place to work and provide the opportunity for real employee involvement and commitment.
You must always reward top performance and must be as clear as possible to your staff on just what you consider top performance.
that motivates less-than-top performers to strive to do better.
getting a clear and consistent message and understanding the objectives.
Before you launch the plan, decide the reward.
notebook on your employees to distribute these cash rewards fairly.
That way, you can reward people for longer-term performance rather than skipping them because of a mistake they made last week.
that non-cash rewards can have a greater
impact for the employees
But if you do go out of your way to give a non-cash reward along with that praise -- that's just gold,"
must be random and occasional.
they become an expectation rather than a reward.
Part of the recognition factor in rewarding employees is your involvement.
Show by activity that you really are all on the same team.
"It's also important when dealing with non-cash rewards that you tailor them to the individual as much as possible.
it will mean that much more to your employees, even more than if you had handed them a bonus in their paychecks.
However, that can emphasize group achievement at the expense of individual initiative.
"You make one-third based on the individual's tangible performance, and the remaining two-thirds based on the group accomplishing and achieving whatever it
Every small business wants motivated employees. They work more efficiently and produce better results
They work more efficiently and produce better results.
You must always reward top performance and must be as clear as possible to your staff on just what you consider top performance.
that motivates less-than-top performers to strive to do better.
that motivates less-than-top performers to strive to do better.
hat motivates less-than-top performers to strive to do better
Communication
4 ways to reward, motivate employees
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clear and consistent message and understanding the objectives
Every small business wants motivated employees. They work more efficiently and produce better result
fairly and effectively can be challenging.
The majority of small businesses "distribute payments to whoever is the golden child of the week,
g monetary and other rewards to improve motivation is a simple idea, but doing it fairly and effectively can be challenging.
The majority of small businesses "distribute payments to whoever is the golden child of the week," says Daniel P. Moynihan, a principal and
senior consultant at Compensation Resources in Upper Saddle River, N.J.
How can you create a compens
This article is from Microsoft on four main ways that you can continue or start to motivate your employees, and how to do it fairly. These include establishing an action plan, being creative when you determine your reward system, give your personal touch to employee rewards, make sure to pay attention to individual initiative along with group initiative.
1. Health care insurance that includes dental and vision coverage.
2. Regular employee evaluations and pay increases.
3. Bonuses based on employee performance.
4. Social Events.
5. Flex Days.
6. Telecommunication - allowing days for employees to work from home.
7. Paid "Early Out."
8. Raffles.
9. Contests.
10. Employee benefits can include having the policy of promoting from within the business.
This article has to deal with the correct and most effective way of hiring new employees or hiring current employees, but to a better position. This article also shows you the fairest and the legal way of hiring a person. There are five steps in their whole process which states that you will find the best employee if you follow these steps. It tell you what to do from the very beginning like publicizing the opening all the way to termination. I believe that if you follow these steps and find the best way to do well in all these steps you will be hired to the job you want in no time.
What are employers looking for in an employee?
1. Understand what the employer is looking for before an interview
2. Basic job qualifications
3. Multitasking (work on more than one project)
4. Initiative (enthusiasm)
5. Creative thinking
6. Long term potential (future in company)
7. Ability to work well with others
8. Ability to make money (help organization)
9. Impressive resume (good impression)
10. Relevent work experience (no hand-holding)
11. Problem solving skills (able to adjust)
12. Online presence (communication--social networking)
This site goes over the definition of organizational culture and the different types that there are. There are some additional links to explain corporate culture and their life cycles.