Even productive employees sometimes get demotivated and their morale is highly affected for a number of reasons. What are the reasons? & How to overcome these demotivation and low morale issues?
- Differentiation, if not not discrimination (ECHRWAY has already posted regarding discrimination issues in this blog), like separate lift / separate lunch room for seniors is one of the reasons. Non-hierarchical structure set-up, means equal privileges for all irrespective of seniority will maintain the motivation / morale level of the employees.
- Professional Companies conduct Training Programmes. Those programmes will be useful only if the employees are not forced to attend, instead, they should be free to select the programmes they are interested in.
- Employees should also be given authority to be innovative but not by violating the company policy. Creativity will maintain or boost the employees' motivation and / or their morale.
- The management should give authority to follow any type of leadership style (be it autocratic, democratic or free-rein) by the superiors depending upon the situation (called Situational Leadership Style).
- If the companies have introduced any change in its system or policies, it should keep its door always open to the employees to give their valuable feedback of appreciation or suggestions to further improve them.
- Management or superiors should give more importance to the output of the employees within the time-frame, instead of thinking about how they brought the output.
- Most companies set KRAs (Key Result Areas) for all type of employees. Instead, productive & innovative employees, who understand the company's expectations, should be given authority to set their own KRAs. This will boost the level of their motivation and morale.
- Employees will feel more secured and motivated if they are appreciated and rewarded in a transparent manner.
- Also, empowering the employees within the purview of the company policy will build a strong foundation of trust by the management / superiors on them.