How must companies motivate their employees?

Answer 1

People work better when they are in a fun, light atmosphere. Create a workplace where it is okay to make mistakes but be able to learn from those mistakes. Give your employees a sense of ownership in the business. If they understand why they are doing what to do it gives your employees a lot more meaning and pride in doing it and doing it well. I am a big believer in K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Stupid. K.M.

Answer 2

Motivated employees perform better and each company has their own methods to motivate employees that can include paid time off. Other methods of motivation include bonuses in the form of money or other rewards.

Answer 3

Offer them fair compensation for their work, including profit-sharing and benefits. Refrain from compensating executives disproportionately, instead distributing profits more or less equally throughout the enterprise. Value everyone, and pay a living wage to even the lowest-paid worker. Reduce the pay gap between upper and lower levels. Reward productivity through individual and collective bonuses.

Why not give them a gift? Or have an employee appreciation day for each of your employees. Make them feel comfortable at work. Praise them when they do a good job, or encourage them to work harder.

Answer 4

It must start with management. If you can motivate managers, it's much easier to motivate other employees. Motivating managers is an art as well as a science. There have been books written on this subject, and appears to have turned into a life time study. However in my humble opinion, the just of it boils down to this. Whatever methodology is viewed as being the best practice for the organization, it must have 100% commitment by senior leadership. This means from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or president and his senior executives on down. Without their commitment and full support, any practice chosen usually amounts to nothing more than a desperate grab for straws by a few well intentioned individuals. Motivating managers in an appropriate and meaningful way - once again - demands full senior level focus.

For the realization of successful outcomes, the CEO and the department of Human Resources (HR) need to be tightly coupled. This is a problem that needs to be rectified in most institutions where the executive director of HR reports to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) rather than the CEO. CFOs are number crunchers, and few are really focused on the human concerns of employees. They look at the brick and mortar rather then the flesh and blood of the company, its employees. I am not saying this can not work (it depends on the personalities), but it does not appear to be the best practice. The better practice is where the executive director of HR reports directly to the president, has a seat at the table, and is a peer of the CFO.

Now the Human Resources individual can get down through the levels and find out want the employees need to do their job more effectively, and to find out what course of action to take to promote and develop passion for what their managers do and the benefit it brings to the organization, its employees, customer base, as well as themselves.

Finding good systems of approach to motivating managers is easy; there are hundreds of good methods out there. The hard part is in convincing senior leadership of its necessity. You have to sell them on the idea that promoting and developing motivation in managers adds business value.

Answer 5

Do something interesting, or give them a reward, not a raise necessarily, but just surprise them.

Answer 6

Encourage them to do something that will do good for you and them but

DO NOT FORCE THEM otherwise they will hate you so just play safe

Answer 7

If you have worked as a team leader in the past, use that experience as an example for answering this question. Motivating a team takes leadership skills, which is what employers want to see.

Answer 8

positive incentives for completing tasks or high work rate.

Answer 9

B4 a worker can be motivated their need has to be put into consideration...... Is it financial need or non financial need....motivation should be applied where it is needed.

Answer 10

How to motivate team