Employee motivation solutions from Profiles International. Understand and improve employee engagement by inspiring your employees to perform based on the individual factors that motivate them.
All of your employees are motivated, but not necessarily in the areas you want them to be motivated. Employees are individuals, meaning that you can have a motivation problem throughout your organization, but the reasons for that lack of motivation will vary with each person.
To effectively motivate employees, managers need to understand what motivates employees within the context of the roles they perform. Of all the functions a manager performs, employee motivation is one of the most difficult. Igniting a spark of motivation in your workforce starts with figuring out how to appeal to each employee’s unique needs and desires. The information you will gain also demonstrates how their personal goals are achieved through the attainment of organizational objectives.
A major study published by Harvard Business Review shows that a key ingredient in employee motivation is ensuring that they are matched to their jobs in terms of their abilities, interests and personalities. The study found that when you put people in jobs where the demands of the job matched their abilities, where stimulation offered by the job matched their particular interests, and where the cultural demands of the position matched their personalities, employee turnover decreased dramatically and productivity increased exponentially. This is the key to employee motivation and increased employee morale.
By identifying the characteristics that match people with the work they do, you can effectively identify the key components that stimulate employee motivation.
Did you know that money is often not the biggest motivator for an employee? A recent survey found that only 15% of employees left their jobs because of inadequate salary and benefits. The same study also found that of those who left their jobs:
30% were unhappy with management and the way they managed
25% felt they received no respect for good work
20% complained of limited opportunities for advancement
15% cited inadequate salary and benefits
5% were bored with the job
5% ited other reasons (retirement, career change, sabbatical, travel)
How can you find ways to motivate your workforce through each individual employee? The answer is simple: know your employees and what motivates them individually.
You can effectively know and act on this information through the use of Profiles International assessments.
Employee assessments will provide you with insight that could lead to higher productivity and job satisfaction throughout your organization. The information collected from assessments provides company leaders with perspective on the current reality in their organization’s workplace and highlights areas of concern affecting the total workplace experience.
Many companies use employee assessments to help them with employee motivation strategies that make employees want to live up to their full potential. This provides better results as each employee’s reason for working is unique. Addressing each individual’s needs in the organization will create a highly motivated workforce that strives for the best as a whole.
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