Your Employees’ Morale Matters | Office Evolution, Louisville, CO

Your employees are your company’s most important asset. Without dedicated employees, a business cannot function to its fullest potential and is likely to miss out on profits.

Taking care of your employees is more critical than ever during The Great Resignation. Large numbers of employees are resigning or at least considering their options—and there are currently quite a few!

To put your business in the best position to attract and retain talent, you should have plans and benefits in place to reassure your employees that they are being taken care of by the company.

Employee morale is one of the most critical focuses when creating these plans and benefits. Employee morale is your employees’ feelings and attitudes towards work.

This mood can be influenced by your behaviors as a manager, the structure of your company as a whole and how well your employees work together.

Some managers may have the mindset that morale does not matter as long as the employees are getting work done, but we now know that is not true. If you compare an employee with a positive mood with one who has a negative mindset about work, the employee with high morale will have higher quality work. It’s a productivity issue.

Improving Employees’ Perception of Work

Now that we know the quality of work is improved when your employees have a good mindset about your business, you are probably itching to ensure all of your employees are in high spirits. While external stressors happen and can cause a bad day at work, you can take steps to keep your employees happy most of the time. Start here:

Stick to the mission. Your company likely has a mission and values that the staff is expected to live by. For many employees, this drew them to the company in the first place, and if they are not adhered to, it can damage morale.

Regularly revisit your mission and value statements to ensure you are holding up your end of the bargain.

Review your benefits. Benefits can often mean almost as much or even more to a job candidate than potential salary. Providing insurance to your employees and offering vacation days and maternity or paternity leave can help your employees trust the business more. Going beyond those basic, barebones benefits to offer additional programs is yet another step in a positive direction.

Taking these stressors off the table for your employees can lead to a considerable boost in morale and a decline in stress.

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