How to make employees more motivated at work? People-oriented, paying equal attention to meeting needs and reflecting value
Maslow's theory of human needs divides needs into five categories: physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. To improve employees' work enthusiasm, it is necessary to work hard to meet the needs of employees in these five aspects, especially the esteem needs and self-actualization needs.
To meet these needs of employees and make employees more motivated, it is necessary to put people first, improve mechanisms, environment and other factors, and implement them through corporate culture, assessment and incentives, care, and planning career development directions.
- Develop corporate culture with cohesion ===========================================
The famous Huawei "wolf culture" is a summary and generalization of learning, innovation, benefit, and unity. Learning and innovation represent a keen sense of smell, benefit represents an offensive spirit, and unity represents the spirit of group struggle. Relying on the "wolf culture", Huawei has attracted many top talents at home and abroad to work actively for it, which has created Huawei that has risen in the ordinary and is unyielding in the face of difficulties.
A good corporate culture can meet employees' needs for respect and self-realization, and has a particularly profound impact on employees' enterprising outlook, professional ethics, and behavioral orientation. Developing a good corporate culture will form a strong radiation for employees, which can enhance cohesion and motivation, and become a key link to improve employees' work enthusiasm.
Corporate culture can form common values among employees, create a cooperative development atmosphere of unity and progress, so as to stabilize employees' work emotions, stimulate employees' enthusiasm for work, and then generate a strong joint force, which has the effect of cohesion, and allows employees to consciously follow the The common goal of the enterprise, and actively improve the enthusiasm of work.
- Improve incentives to create momentum =========================================
Management guru Mitchell Laberford said: "The greatest management principle in the world is that people will do what is rewarded." He proposed in "The Greatest Management Principle in the World": , The reason why the organization is inefficient and lifeless is that in the final analysis, there is something wrong with their employee appraisal system and reward and punishment system.
The performance appraisal mechanism can promote healthy competition among employees, and it is also an effective way to enhance employees' work enthusiasm. Eliminate employees' fear and resistance to performance appraisal, avoid blind pursuit of "one size fits all", scientifically design and quantify performance indicators, and establish and operate a well-functioning performance appraisal system to achieve a "win-win" for enterprises and employees.
Improve the supporting measures for performance appraisal, formulate a reasonable salary, bonus, and welfare distribution system, keep performance appraisal highly consistent with the salary distribution system, be closely linked with the personal interests of employees and realize the results, and can urge employees to give themselves motivation in their work. , with a higher work enthusiasm, to achieve greater career progress.
- Maintain humanistic care and create an atmosphere =====================================================
In the final analysis, employees are a group of people, and what people need most is emotional connection. People-oriented, caring and caring for employees, improving the working environment, and creating a harmonious working atmosphere can enhance employees' sense of happiness and dependence, so that they have more sense of responsibility and identity for the enterprise, and work enthusiasm will naturally increase.
Establish and improve the mechanism of assistance and psychological assistance for difficulties, and provide humanistic care to employees who are seriously ill, encounter emergencies, or have psychological problems, so as to solve the practical difficulties of employees and make employees feel at ease. Having affiliation is crucial to improving employees' work enthusiasm and initiative, which can make employees full of gratitude and happiness, and gain respect.
Properly improving the working environment and working conditions of employees can make employees feel happy at work, and at the same time create a good working atmosphere, which is conducive to improving employees' enthusiasm for work and improving work efficiency. The working environment and conditions are gradually improved, so that employees can constantly feel the care and respect of the company, so as to maintain and increase employees' goodwill towards the company.
- Embody employee value to help progress ==========================================
Many employees are very concerned about their career development plans. For these employees who have goals and motivation, they need to help them plan their career development direction. On the basis of reflecting the value of employees, smooth the career promotion channels for employees, so that employees can achieve self-realization while working. Self-worth, satisfying their sense of achievement and professionalism.
Combined with the company's strategic development goals, establish a fair and just talent training system to help employees make career development plans to ensure that employees have a stable understanding of career development and career direction, and can also construct a fact-based reasonable expectation, Let employees have a direction in their work and have hope in their struggles, which can greatly enhance their enthusiasm and initiative.
Through professional career planning training, reserve cadre system, professional ability and quality counseling, etc., to provide employees with career planning help, which can generate internal motivation for employees, so as to achieve the purpose of retaining talents and cultivating talents, and at the same time enabling employees Acquire self-actualization needs, generate lasting work enthusiasm, and actively improve work enthusiasm.