101: Employee productivity
There may be significant impacts to productivity in your organization that you haven't weighed concerning workplace culture and providing workers with the right tools to do their jobs. Here are three ways to boost productivity, while signaling to staffers they are respected and valued:
Provide adequate training at all levels. Leadership training generally involves a company training upper management, says an article by Victor Lipman at Forbes.com. But it's more beneficial to train middle managers and supervisors, according to Lipman. “I can readily speak from experience on this one, having received considerably more training and development opportunities in the latter stages of my career than in the early formative stages, when I most needed it,” he writes.
Consider all kinds of family care programs. A company that considers employees' balance of their personal and professional lives is helping its people reduce one of their most major stressors. “And it's not just about child care, either,” writes Nicole Fallon at BusinessNewsDaily.com. “Think about how you can help them take care of their aging parents, their pets and their households, too.”
Realize that downsizing and outsourcing affect morale. It's become commonplace in corporate America to downsize expensive labor and outsource to cut costs. That, in turn, impacts the productivity of those who remain, Jan Stringer says in an article at the National Business Research Institute website, www.nbriil.com. “If they downsize” she writes, “they need to provide support to the employees that remain. The psychological impact on employees can directly impact productivity, forcing many to focus on their second careers instead of the job at hand.”
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