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Employee Morale And Productivity – Management Notes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
It is established in many theoretical studies that employees who are satisfied with work culture of organization are more productive and there is a specific association between productivity and morale. Employee morale is a decisive factor in companies.Continue Reading Employee Morale And Productivity – Management Notes – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
Employee morale has been a matter of broad social research, which intended to establish aspects of work associated with either high or low employee morale. Hetherington (1997) stated that major studied areas include supervision, remuneration, the job itself, company and relationships with other colleagues. In his study of structure and job satisfaction in a multihospital system he uses a modified Price definition of morale: “the degree to which the members of a social system have a positive affective (and cognitive) orientation toward membership in the system”.
Employee morale, in human resource management is described as the job satisfaction, attitude, and feelings of happiness of a worker in work environment. Proven to have a direct effect on productivity, it is one of the corner stones of business. Only few organizations pay attention to morale among workers in their organization. This is a mistake from their side. Forret and Love (2008) explained morale in two different states of directions as either being high or low.
Depending on what direction morale was in an organization often times determined the overall attitude one felt towards their work environment. High morale in the organization may not directly affect productivity but it has been revealed high morale among workers enhances work satisfaction and increases the productivity of organization. Morale can be considered as team spirit or outlook. In competitive business environment and goal oriented situation, companies are generally goal driven and managed as a result, employees are focused on increased efficiency, better procedures and keeping up with competitors. This behaviour has its price in worker morale which needs to be balanced.
When worker has high morale, the levels of general job satisfaction and overall happiness are also high. This indicates that workers give high performance together and function as a unified team. It is a fact that when management keep high morale of team, then it is easy to complete a project on time and under budget.
When employees are comfortable and have good feeling about their job, they put their efforts to accomplish more as a team. They also tend to put in more emotionally in their job. They have good self-esteem and they do not want to work anywhere else and take steps for the success of company. As any manager who has witnessed interoffice fighting can attest, having good morale will often improve interoffice relationships.
Offices who maintain high moral in their business environment typically display much less pessimism and general bad behaviour issues as compared to workplaces where morale is low. It is much easier to get along with others when employee feels that he/she is happy at job and all is right in the world. When employees do not have clashes in workplace, they have more time to actually do their jobs.
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