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Job satisfaction is critical to high productivity, motivation and low employee turnover. Maximizing employee happiness has become an ever more prevalent topic in today's scenario. Many companies are focusing on workplace culture ‘hacks’, such as flexible work arrangements and team building, in the hope that they will create happy and productive workforce.

Employers face the challenges of finding ways to increase job satisfaction, so their businesses stay competitive. Those that fail to improve job satisfaction are at risk of losing their top talented people to the competition. To improve your team's productivity, reduce turnover rates, and drive increased revenue for your company, it's critical you take the time to focus on your employees' job satisfaction.

How to Increase Job Satisfaction – The PRIDE System

The leaders of the organization have the responsibility for creating a high level of job satisfaction.

According to Dr Edwards Deming, “The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people.” A motivating environment is one that gives workers a sense of pride in what they do. To show supervisors and managers how to build a more productive work environment, here is a five-step process called the PRIDE system. Leaders can improve motivation within their organizations by following this process:

Provide a positive working environment
Recognize everyone’s efforts
Involve everyone
Develop skills and potential
Evaluate and measure continuously

Provide a Positive Working Environment - Job satisfaction begins by first providing a positive work environment. To find what motivates people, “you have to find what turns people on." This is the most important factor in the process. A motivating working environment requires going over and beyond the call of duty and providing for the needs of workers.

Reward, Reinforcement and Recognition – Personal recognition is a powerful tool in building morale and motivation. A pat on the back, a personal note from a peer or a supervisor does wonders. Small, informal celebrations are many times more effective than a once a quarter or once a year formal event.

Involve and Increase Employee Engagement – People may show up for work, but are they engaged and productive? People are more committed and have higher levels of employee engagement when there is a process for them to contribute their ideas and employee suggestions. This gives them a sense of ownership and pride in their work.

Develop the Skills and Potential of your Workforce – Training and education motivates people and makes them more productive and innovative. Well-trained employees are more capable and willing to assume more control over their jobs. All this leads to better management-employee relationships.

Evaluate and Measure Job Satisfaction – Continuous evaluation and never-ending improvement is the final step of the PRIDE system. Evaluation is a nonstop activity that includes a specific cycle of steps focusing on job satisfaction and employee engagement. The primary purpose of evaluation is to measure progress and determine what needs improving. Continuous evaluation includes, but is not limited to, the measurement of attitudes, morale, and motivation of the workforce. It includes the identification of problem areas needing improvement and the design and implementation of an improvement plan.

Turacoz Workforce Solutions believes that job satisfaction is very important, and an employee needs to be satisfied in all ways at his workplace. A satisfied employee has better productivity and dedication level. The organizations should monitor for the issues being faced by their employees at the workplace and try to resolve them in order to attain employees’ job satisfaction.

Turacoz Workforce Solutions is a medical communications company catering to US and Canada region. For obtaining our services, ranging from temporary hiring to permanent hiring and to know more about us, write to us at hello@tuacoz.in

March 06, 2019 By Smita Soni