Motivate your employees

Nothing is more damaging to a company than unproductive employees. There are many factors that lead employees to be unproductive:

1- Direct manager is not involved on the day to day activities of his/her staff.
2- Company doesn’t have employees’ performance review program.
3- Goals and vision of the company are not clear.
4- Employees don’t have detailed job description; they don’t know what is expected of them.
5- Some employees are just not fit for the job.

From my experience in working with various organizations and with employees from different parts of the world, the above factors are usually the cause for employee’s unproductivity.

What is the solution? Very simple, make sure the above factors are not true for your organization.

1- Manager should have a meeting, even if it very short with his/her staff on daily basis, just to have an idea of what they are working on.
2- You must have employees’ performance review, either monthly or quarterly.
3- Your employees must understand and must believe on the mission statement of the company, otherwise, you will get an employee who’s only motivation for coming to work is to get a pay check at the end of the month.
4- Each employee must understand what is expected of him or her, when I first started to work with my current company, I noticed the office janitor doing nothing all day, so I started my mission with my new company by writing a job description for our janitor. I asked him why he sat all day long doing nothing? He said “ I don’t know what is expected of me.” When I explained to him his job duties he felt as if he was a part of a bigger team and his job performance really improved.
5- Finally, some employees are only working at your company because they have nothing better to do, get rid of these employees.