Ways of Motivating your Employees

By Joshua Nyamache

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One thing that you have to understand is that personal motivation is internal. Motivation is the willingness of someone or a team to expand their energy in order to achieve a goal. Of course, you can say that it’s a psychological phenomenon.

Leaders should be followed and not to be obeyed just because of their positions. If they are followed, then it means that they have inspired the people that are following them. But if they are obeyed just because of their positions they hold, then it means they are forcing people to do things unwillingly.

If you have employed people, you should motivate them. Why am I telling you this? You see, without employee's personal motivation all other resources would be ineffective. No matter how much machinery and other modern equipment you install in your organization, they will remain unproductive if the employees who are supposed to operate them are not motivated.

Many organizations are facing challenges regarding employees complains. Majority of the organizations that have failed to address these complains have experienced losses. The losses are in the form of employee’s strikes, wastage of organization raw materials and careless operation of machines.

Six Ways of Boosting Employees Personal Motivation

1. All employees require sufficient money to meet their daily needs and to be able to provide for their families. The organization can energize them by increasing their salaries, giving them bonus or even through profit sharing initiative.

2. An organization should engage its staff in decision making process. If it does this, then its staff has a sense of belonging and this motivates them. They know that they are recognized by the organization.

3. Job enrichment makes employees to work well. An organization should give them a chance in deciding certain routine things because this creates excitement and interests in them. Assigning them a complete project, delegating them additional authority and giving them organizations reports directly are examples on how to enrich the job.

4. There should be a proper communication between the employees and the management. The management should give employees the necessary information they need to know on how to solve their problems within the organization. An effective upward and downward communication determines the effectiveness of the already set policies.

5. The terms of employment such as opportunities for promotions to existing employees, leave allowances and other perquisites (fringe benefits) available to employees highly motivates them.

6. High morale is associate with high productive. If there is high morale among employees, then there is high probability that the organization is going to achieve its desired results. An organization should be able to implement the factors that boost employee’s morale which later on transform to personal motivation.