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Employees are the backbone of any company/organization. Keeping them contended is the key to success for the organization. If the employees are happy and satisfied with their position in the office, they will do their best for the profit of the concerned organization. Here are a few tips which can help you understand their satisfaction level and requirements to make them happy and get the best out of them for your business:

Try to be logical: You demand work from your employees but take care not to ask them for truly impossible. Don’t insist them to work in late hours daily and all weekend for something which is not urgently required. Don’t shout and force them to work in such a tiring and uncomfortable situation.

Keep your words: If you say something then let it happen whether it’s regarding bonus of employees, giving feedback on a project, liaising with another department. Do what you say you’re going to do, in whatever timeline you committed to. If you are responsible, then your employees will take your words seriously otherwise they will also be lazy.

Respect your employees: Your employees should be respected and their work should be valued. Do not underestimate and discourage them. You should act in such a way that your employee feels respected.

Care your staff: Companies must care about their people. If they don’t feel that the company cares about them, then why should they care about the company?

Ask a feedback: Seek a feedback from the employees about how the staffer thinks last week’s event went to what you could be doing to make her/his job easier. This will reflect their need and requirement. Value their feedback. Do not ignore them. Share their views with them.

Focus on results: Make sure that all the employees including you are focused on the central target of success of the company. Rules and regulation made should be logical and should be concerned to the success and goals of the organization. Do not try to make rules or policies to entertain your personal goals.

Talk to your employees: Have a talk to the employees to know their requirements in the job. Sort out their problems. Figure out their needs which can range from training and better equipment to the elimination of a counterproductive policy.

Face difficult situation and take solid decisions: In case the company get stuck in any conflict, do not avoid that situation. Have tough conversations, make decisions that may be unpopular, and enforce standards and consequences. Good employees will get frustrated and dislikes a manager’s passivity and avoidance of conflict. Just face it!

Speak honestly: Tell the employees about their performance honestly. Tell them the areas where they need more hard work and appreciate where they are doing pretty well. This will encourage them for further improvement and will energize them in a right direction.

Keep Probing: Be vigilant about the happenings in your surroundings and ask questions like:
Are your employees satisfied?
What are their needs at workplace?
How’s their workload?
What part of their job are they struggling with?
What improvement is needed at work?
What are the obstacles that are making their jobs more difficult?
What are their goals for their job and their longer-term future?
How should you help them?

You need to speak with them openly on certain issues. So don’t avoid these things and keep your employees happy and go ahead!

Tags: Business, Employee, organization, staff, success

Today is a highly competitive world which demands hard work in right direction. Amid this pressure spending long hours at office become a usual norm. Late hour working is become a trend now-a-days. People are getting workaholic to survive in the competitive area of their field. They become so habitual of working that they soon get a tendency to work late. But these continuous long working hours are stressing our daily routine and giving a negative impact on our health also.

Working on computers and laptops till long hours can be seen in any office. Reasons for working late hours are different for different people. Most of the people stay at office to finish their work, meeting deadlines. Others are bound to late working hours because of different time zones and immediacy. Some of the guys work till late to impress their boss and make their image of a sincere and har worker employee.

However, there is a necessity to work in late hours in some organizations where effort and dedication from its employees is needed to devote extra working hours to reach the target. No matter what position the employee hold, they have to work in late hours.

Long working hours are giving a serious blow to our life and health. The impact cannot be ignored. Due to overwork, people got stuck to office and his/her work only and his personal life becomes squeezed out of the routine. No quality time for friends and family. Employee get cut off from the outer world and the brain is only occupied with work, work and work.

Major impact is on our health as late working hour’s gives stress and tension leaving people with so many problems like insomnia and loss of appetite. Rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disorders were also reported to be higher in over-night workers. Many of them also experience BOSS, burn–out stress syndrome. These problems gives rise to many other diseases like ulcers and anxiety disorders leading to heart attacks, kidney disease and dementia. Stress is the major problem of late working hour which attracts other problems. It not only disturbs the normal functioning of body but may lead to unhealthy habits such as smoking and drinking leading to a complete deterioration of physical as well as moral part of an individual.

Employees are the backbone of any organization. If the employee is unhealthy, this will definitely affect the concerned company and the organization. Late working hours provide work to the company but a stressed and tired employee can’t to his/her best. He/She will reduce efficiency of working and the employees’ productivity level soon drops when they are tired and overworked. This may lead to staff resignation, retention and recruitment problems. Employee must be healthy to work and give a positive output for the company.

Working in late hours can lead to mis-happenings also. Specifically, workers on the night shift have a 20 percent greater chance of being involved in a severe accident and make five times the “serious” mistakes that their daytime counterparts make.

Work gives money to live a better life but if the same work is making our life worse than what is the need of hard work?

I am not saying that you stop working and start enjoying life all the time but don’t you think there should be a proper balance between work and for other activities? Just give a little time to yourself and your family also. Take care of your health by practicing morning exercise and Yoga to relax your mind and to get rid of stress. This will take hardly half hour but will give a full day energy and relaxation.

Increase your efficiency by timely lunch and dinner. Energetic mind will complete your work faster. Increase productivity by paperless technologies.

These small but super tips may help you and you will then enjoy your working and can avoid late working hours also. Happy working!

Tags: Employee, habit, Health, Job, late hour working, Lifestyle, Money, Office, work, working

Woman Gives Birth to Triplets at her Desk; Finishes Marketing Reports. Surprising incident!

Senior Marketing Director Neha Lakhra who is honored the Employee of the Month had given a stunning surprise by delivering 3 beautiful, healthy children and the marketing reports also by 5pm. Giving the superb display of multitasking She picked up the ‘Employee of the Month’ honors.

Neha whose pregnancy period was completed and her labor pain can knock any time have her marketing reports due by 5 pm. Instead of going to hospital she better preferred to take care of her work along with the babies.

“I knew the marketing reports were due by 5, and I knew the babies were due any minute, so I just propped my lap top on my belly, put my legs up on my desk, and took care of business,” stated an out of breath Neha. “I just hope I didn’t make any mistakes on the reports, my boss doesn’t tolerate sloppy reports,” concluded Neha as the doctor handed her perfect little babies.

A cleaning crew has to be engaged to clean the mess created by this heroic display of commitment to deadlines, and Neha’s co-workers will most likely need months of therapy to remove the images and screams that have been burned into their memory, but there must be a big hand of applause for her dedication.

Appreciating her dedication to work Neha’s manager said, “Well, to be honest, it would have been fine if she just got me the reports tomorrow. And it would have been a lot better for everyone if she had gone to the hospital. But I love her dedication to the company. You can’t teach that kind of work ethic,”

Very much contented with her work the manager hung her ‘Employee of the Month’ certificate over the office coffee maker.

Tags: Employee, Surprise

The indefinite strike by airport employees against closure of Bangalore and Hyderabad airports is called off today after a two day agitation.

Government ensured the employees that there will be no risk to their future as the old airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore would be used for general aviation.

“The (existing) airports are not being closed down. They will be used for general aviation (apart from defence purposes and national emergencies),” Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said.

The civil aviation minister said new airports have to be constructed in national interest.

The two day strike resulted into piling of a lot of litter on Thursday in many places on the airport, although flights remain normal across the country.

The strike didn’t effected the schedules for flight but the used coffee and tea cups, empty water bottles and waste paper could be seen littered at the Delhi airport and passengers complained of dirty toilets.

“Keeping in mind the interests of all sections, we will try to find a way out of the legal problems in the future, speak to the operators (of the greenfield airports), he said.

Waste material remained piled at the international arrival terminal and domestic arrival and departure terminals with the maintenance workers participating in the agitation.

But there was no such problem in the international departure terminal in any airport. AAI Director Narendra Kaushal told that ‘everything is fine and normal.’

The minister said the employees were apprehensive that with the privatisation of airports, the financial viability of the AAI would be jeopardised.

“I assured them that interests of AAI and its employees will not be affected. In fact, we will try to make AAI more profitable,” he said.

Tags: Agitation, Airport, Employee