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How do Company Policies retain employees?

You may wonder what company policies do with job satisfaction. The policies are framed to communicate the strategy of the management to the employees. The way of communication matters a lot. In most of the organizations, the company policies are provided as thick employee manual that may overkill the employees. Sometimes, they may not go through the entire contents. Instead of making them read the legal information and rules, conduct the orientation to make them understand the guidelines. Ensure that every employee understands the policies and procedures rather than enforcing them as rules. Explain the key rules to be followed clearly. This includes maintaining confidential information, use of email and telephone, standards of conduct etc. You may convey the message that these guidelines are to be strictly followed. However, be prepared to have exception to the rules in unforeseen conditions. This will create a positive environment and attachment to the job.

Work Environment influences employees

The work environment plays an important role to make the employee to be emotionally involved in the job. The ISO definition for Work Environment is as follows: (Reference: http://www.praxiom.com/iso-definition.htm ) The term work environment refers to all the factors that influence work. In general, these include social, cultural, psychological, physical, and environmental conditions. The term work environment includes lighting, temperature, and noise factors, as well as the whole range of ergonomic influences. It also includes things like supervisory practices as well as reward and recognition programs. All of these things influence how work is performed. This does not mean to have a luxurious infrastructure, but a convenient workspace. Ensure a healthy and safe environment. Allocate some personal space for each employee with desk, lockers etc. This makes a psychological difference. Create an encouraging and friendly environment. Provide enough freedom to exp

Inter-Personal relationship increases performance

Positive inter-personal relationship has multiple impacts on job satisfaction. When an employee has good relationship with the manager, co-workers and customers, the performance automatically increases and results in high job satisfaction. Like job satisfaction, inter-personal relationship is also an emotional feeling and cannot be measured. However, an employer can organize programs that encourage teamwork. Arranging for frequent meetings and resolving conflicts immediately strengthen the relationship. Ensure that a positive friendship is shaped between the co-workers so that they enjoy working with each other. Start with building relationship among people with similarities instead of differences. Later the same kind of relationship can be established among people having differences. Effective inter-personal relationship leads to job satisfaction, high performance and success.

Good Manager leads to Job Satisfaction

Having a good manager is the key motivating factor for an employee. When a manager can motivate employees and increase the productivity, the same person can also demotivate the employees and lead to frustration. Job satisfaction is the personal emotional feeling of the employee. When the employee is not receiving recognition for the performance, this emotional feeling is blown up. Especially when there is lack of communication between the manager and employees, it certainly affects the job satisfaction. A manager may easily affect the employee’s job satisfaction by ignoring the ideas, not recognizing the achievements, or by not having proper relationship. Many employees do not tend to leave the company, but their managers. The top management can consider the managers’ performance by obtaining feedback from the employees reporting to them. This may be a good start to have good managers and in turn to retain employees.

Job Satisfaction and Employee Retention

The previous session was concluded as Job satisfaction plays a vital role in Employee Retention. Sometimes, employers have the impression that highly-paid employees would stay with them for a long period. Even the highest paid employees may leave the company if they feel frustrated. Job satisfaction is the emotional state-of-mind that makes employees to be attached to the job. The factors that attract employees include good manager, inter-personal relationship, work environment, recognition, company policies, and of course Salary. We’ll discuss these factors in detail in the forthcoming sessions.