I have been wondering about the role of management in a firm from the past so many days. What is an ideal manager, a perfect team, an examplary work-environment and most-importantly satisfactory work! Management need not always motivate their employess for performing better but instead have to stop de-motivating them. From an employee's vista, certain things are implicitly communicated to the management which ought to be understood by them in order to perform smoothly or else they should get prepared to face the perils of the frustation. Management should be really articulate in what they intend to do. Sugar-coating difficult situations, dispassionate decisions, obdurate refusals are nothing but an absolute hog-wash. What is required for getting 100% from your employee is a piffling amount of recognition. Just a pat on the back saying 'Gud Work' would do, i guess! Commanding and controlling language is sure fire path to demotivation. There is a need to consistently maintain an ardent workforce.
Monetary benefits (or say pay), recognition of your work, appreciation for your accomplishments, good work-environment are a few defined, irreplaceable needs for an employee. No one factor can substitute the other.
Another way of incorporating demotivated environment is by squeezing the sense of security from an employee's mind. Just let them know that their jobs (or say appraisels) would be in jeopardy if they do not meet the expectations, do not complete tasks on time, do not perform well. I mean, I dont think there is any employee who does not want to perform THE best. Okay say, a few % are there who would work for the sake of work only.....but then management can not and should not generalize and explicitly state and instill this sort of insecurity in their minds.
Management should be smart but not oversmart because oversmart are the one's who are not smart!! Anyways, a good employee is the one who self-motivates himself/herself and let those managerial guys know about their incapability of holding that position.
Well enough for now...after a few days hiatus i think this was a nice topic for my blog!
