Increasing Staff Morale can be a tricky task, especially in an environment that includes a lot of stress related job duties. Every manager and supervisor needs to understand and learn how to sympathize with their employees. Many employees have the desired knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform their duty on the job adequately, however if that job is a stressful career choice, then the employees may not want to strive as hard to achieve their works goals if all it means is getting more and more stressed out. Their are many methods that can be put into practice to help boost an increase in staff moral and the overall well being of a stress full work environment. The work environment could range from anything including a quiet confined office space to a loud construction yard. No matter which type of work environment your job is located in, each and every job will have its up’s and down’s regarding the overall morale of the employees who are employed with the business.
One method into boosting staff morale is to hold weekly breakfast parties and lunch parties. Businesses try to make as much money, and sometimes they have to spend money to make money, which is why they hire individuals who will make the company more money than what it costs the company to employee their workers. Since business companies have all this money to spend, they should at least spend some of it on their own fellow employees, the same employees who are in turn, making the place of business a monetizing fortune. Food parties should be hosted by the business at least once a week and should consist of both a breakfast party and a lunch party. Possible menu items for breakfast parties include pancakes, waffles, scrambled eggs, and biscuits. While possible menu items for lunch parties include grilled hamburgers, hotdogs, home made chilli, and diced fruit. These food parties need to be entirely paid for by the company and not asking the place of business’ own employees to fork over their own cash to help pay for the food and drink menu items. How awkward would it be for a manager or supervisor to tell their employees they cannot participate in the food party without shelling out five or ten dollars. I mean, the heck with that, I’d rather use the five or ten dollars to purchase myself twice as much food at the local grocery store than only getting a single plateful of chips and soup. So if you are a manager, supervisor, or some other type of employee in a leadership role at your company, consider not charging your own employees to eat food. The employees did not come to work to pay the company, they came to work to get paid by the company.
Another professional method in increasing the overall moral of the employees of a place of business is to adequately pay the employees a decent salary for the type of work that must be performed. No one wants to shovel dirt or deal with irate customers who don’t know how to speak the spoken language of the country for minimum wage, especially since the corporate folks are receiving a six figure income for sitting in leather chairs making business decision including decisions regarding how low can they pay their own employees before a high turn over rate develops. I would never work at a job that paid their own employees such a low monetary income, that their health benefits and the illegal taxes that are taken out reduce the pay check by half of the actual earnings. Really, health benefits should be fully charged out of the companies gross revenue rather than being taken out of someone’s own paycheck. They worked hard for that money, and should not have to spend money earned by working for getting regular dental check up’s. Companies now a days are so greedy, they would sometimes never consider someone who begins to question the overall integrity of the managers and supervisors when the employee is not receiving a financially sound pay check for stressful work being performed.
Another great business idea to help to boost the overall morale of a companies’ employees is to have random drawings with various prizes. A few prizes could include leaving work an hour early and still getting that hours’ regular pay. Maybe getting an additional break to use that week so the employee can take three full breaks for instance rather than simply two partial breaks. A company can have a spinner wheel in which all of the employees get to spin the wheel, and where ever it stops, they get that prize, and then that area the prize is in, is blacked out so the next person could not win that same prize. Just in case half of the office for example does not get to leave work an hour early and there are only half of the required amount of employees on duty at any one given time. Another prize to put on the wheel could be the ability to drink and eat at the employees work desk for an entire week. I mean, employees are human, and we do hunger and thirst like any other animal would, it is only fair that us humans are able to eat and drink whatever we want, where ever we want, with out stressing about whether or not we are breaking a companies’ work policies.
A place of business and the companies’ corporate owners need to be able to relate to and be active in their own employees lives both during work hours and after work hours. By boosting staff morale at the office or on the site of business, a company will be proving to the employees that the company does care about their employees, and will go out of their corrupted corporate ways to keep a smile on the employees who are paying the business owners’ own salary. Salary requirements should also be changed, sports stars need to start off making minimum wage, movie actors and actresses need to make less than $30,000 dollars before making the “big bucks,” and corporate individuals who live the majority of their lives in their high rise buildings and sports cars need to relocate into the actual building that their employees are sweating in.
Discussion Topic: How to Boost Staff Morale
