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| What Motivates Employees |
Here’s a question to help you test your employee-relations savvy? Do you know what motivates your employees? A recent survey asked managers to rank their employees’ most valuable “job rewards.” Managers ranked the employees’ needs this way:
My Ranking
- Good wages --
- Job security --
- Promotion and growth in the organization --
- Good working conditions --
- Interesting work --
- Personal loyalty to employees --
- Tactful discipline --
- Full appreciation of work done --
- Sympathetic help with personal problems --
- Feeling of being in on things --
Before reading on, rank these ten “job rewards” yourself. Which do you think are most valuable to your employees?
Now consider the same list as ranked by employees themselves:
- Interesting work
- Full appreciation of work done
- Feeling of being in on things
- Job security
- Good wages
- Promotion and growth in the organization
- Good working conditions
- Personal loyalty to employees
- Tactful discipline
- Sympathetic help with personal problems
Surprised? A mistake many employers make is basing their reward system on what they think employees value. Want to know what employees really want from your company? A sure-fire solution is to ask them. A novel approach, no doubt, but effective, since no two employees’ interests and needs are identical. If you base your reward system on faulty assumptions, your whole employee motivation plan may backfire.
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