The document discusses several ways to motivate employees. It suggests defining outcomes but letting managers choose their own methods, identifying and using employees' strengths by matching them to suitable jobs, treating employees as individuals with unique needs and talents, demonstrating how employees' best work helps the organization, considering employees' opinions in decision making, assisting employees to translate organizational goals into personal goals, recognizing team achievements, encouraging healthier workplace relationships, promoting creativity and innovation through a transparent and open work culture, and remembering that a great workplace is more motivating than pay and benefits alone.

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motivation

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Define the outcome you want from managers
and insist that they find their own way there.
This practice encourages creativity and
makes people empowered enough to
innovate their way to achieving goals.
Employee motivation

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Identify strengths of the employees and make
efforts to develop and use their strengths by
assigning suitable jobs to them. The best way
to motivate a person is to offer him the job
which he / she likes the most.
Employee motivation

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The seniors must genuinely share the joys
and sorrows of the individuals. Treat every
employee as a distinctive individual. Every
individual is a unique bundle of needs,
insecurities, ambitions, spirit and genius.
This must be translated into specific action in
managing every individual’s growth, training,
rewards etc. In majority of cases the
employees do not leave companies - they
leave their seniors and supervisors.
Employee motivation

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• To motivate a person to give his best to your
organization, demonstrate to him how his best
will make the organization a better performer.
Their opinions must be considered during the
decision making process.
• Assist employees in translating organization’s
mission into personal mission.
Employee motivation

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• Get teams to initiate continuous improvement
process and recognize their achievements.
Only then you will find every one committed
to quality. Encourage team based rewards
rather than individual rewards.
• Encourage people to develop healthier
relationships with others at the work place
instead of only encouraging professional
relationships.
Employee motivation

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Create a work culture that is transparent,
open to new ideas and promotes lot of
creativity and innovation.
Employee motivation

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It must be remembered that good pay and
perks can always be matched and even
bettered by your competitors - it is only the
great work places that will make significant
difference to the quality of the organization.
Employee motivation