Though you may be a business owner now, you have probably spent time working for someone else. Having been an employee with entrepreneurial sensibilities, you may recall instances when you were convinced your boss had forgotten what it was like to be on the front lines. If you’d had more to say about it, perhaps [...]
How to Establish an Involvement Culture in the Workplace
Getting employees involved and happy to be at work is an important part of being a boss or manager. But how can you get them involved? And how can you maintain that sense of involvement over time? This article is all about creating your workplace involvement culture. There are proven ways of creating an involvement [...]
Empower Your Employees for Greater Productivity
It is no longer possible to do everything by yourself. You need your team and the more you make use of everyone’s skills the better! The real strength of a business leader or manager lies in his or her careful assignment of work and responsibility to his or her people. Empowering employees may sometimes lead [...]
The Irreplaceable Value of People in the Workplace
New ways of doing business have re-shaped the workplace of the new economy. This is different to the workplace our grandfathers knew. Today and in the years to come, only those who can truly create value that the customers are willing to pay for will remain on the employment roster. But even being a good [...]
How to Secure Employee Commitment
With real commitment from your employees, business performance can improve significantly. While employees may seem enthusiastic seeing their company succeed, management must set clear goals and communicate these to employees so that they can help put these goals into reality. People cannot work together as a team if the company has no clear direction. With [...]
Promote Employee Loyalty to Achieve Higher Productivity
It used to be that hard work and dedication virtually guaranteed life-long job security. But due to global competition, business organizations today continuously re-assess their strategies and their employment needs. Allowing employees to feel that they are valuable and to take responsibility for their actions is important. Admitting your own limitations is a good start. [...]
Employees are the Best Defenders of the Business in Times of Crisis
You can almost see what the future holds for us with regards to businesses. There is now one global market, a border-less economy and the liberalization of trade where business organizations – large or small – battle it out to win the approval and admiration of their customers. The company with a good corporate image [...]
Innovation is One Way to Encourage Employee Involvement
Organizations today spend substantial amounts of their resources so that their businesses can continuously respond to the demands of the rapidly-changing economy. Among the various management strategies being adopted include the giving out of rewards as a means of motivating employees to share their knowledge through coming up with worthy inventions and innovations. In highly-diverse [...]
Partnership Provides the Impetus for Employee and Organizational Productivity
Many companies today are working to overcome the old and traditional patterns of behavior by replacing these with effective communication and partnership programs. Learning to listen to others and really hear them speak the truth and come together in understanding can result in significant improvements in employee productivity. Whether in a personal or organizational work [...]
The Team Concept of Leading a Business Organization
There is enough evidence that a leadership style that emphasizes a team approach within an organization contributes to high productivity and profitability. Problems in interpersonal relations are less common where teamwork is evident. Teamwork may also help to ensure not only that the job gets done but that it it is done efficiently and harmoniously. [...]
Building A High-Involvement Culture
What is culture and why is it important to the success of a business? Culture means a particular form of civilization, especially the beliefs, customs, arts and institution of a society at the given time. It is a set of values, beliefs, norms, attitudes, habits and way of life of a group of people. Our [...]