How to motivate employees?

One of the important tasks for people who are bosses or executives in a company is to motivate employees. In the past, the methods managers used to motivate employees were very simple and crude, but today the situation is completely different. Motivating employees is a technical job that requires many methods and techniques, such as the following motivational methods that can be used.

How to motivate employees?

1) A complete reward and punishment system. What moves people is not encouragement but money. If you want to motivate employees, the most direct and effective way is to increase salaries, performance and improve the reward and punishment system. Sometimes the reason why employees are not motivated is simply because there is no perfect reward and punishment system.

2) Arrange work tasks reasonably. Human beings are emotional animals. No matter where they are or what position they hold, they always want to be comfortable, happy and willing. Many companies like high-pressure policies and full-load work systems. But that won't last long. A company that wants to develop sustainably in the long run will not only have a complete reward and punishment system, but also a welfare policy for its employees. For example, reasonably arrange employees' work and rest time, spare time, team building, birthdays, and field expansion training. Past cases have proven that this approach is effective.

3) Look to the future. It is usually most effective for newcomers in the workplace. To put it bluntly, it is just making empty promises. New employees in the workplace take their work very seriously and are conscientious and responsible in everything they do, for fear that they might make mistakes and leave a bad impression on their superiors, thus affecting their next promotion. Therefore, when the company's prospects, future development, and even his initial career plan are described, the new employee's enthusiasm will be mobilized.

4) Construction of spiritual civilization. A company with corporate culture and a company with the spirit of cultivating people is a great company. If you want to mobilize the enthusiasm of employees, you must pay attention to the spiritual civilization construction of employees, centripetal force, cohesion, sense of honor, sense of mission, sense of responsibility, etc. Although we work for money, we don’t work just for the money. Instead of promising money and positions, it is better to give employees some unusual missions so that employees like this job, love this job, and are willing to safeguard the interests of the company in addition to receiving due compensation.

5) Work is guaranteed, work is enjoyable, and old age is well-supported. The importance of a sound reward and punishment system has been emphasized before. But this is not enough. It is easy to understand that work should be guaranteed and work should be enjoyable. However, this old-age care does not refer to the employees in office, but to their families. Sometimes companies ignore the feelings of employees' families. If they can take care of some poor employees' families in this regard, then the company will have a good reputation and will have been accountable to its employees.

Imagine such a good company. As long as the employees are sane, they will not leave the company easily. Not to mention the so-called enthusiasm, employees will even publicize these benefits of the company, which will further increase the company's soft power.