How can management enhance employee satisfaction?
A lot of times management has the false impression that more money is what leads to higher employee satisfaction levels. No one would argue that money is important to people, but a lot of other factors can have an impact on employee satisfaction. For instance, relationships with a supervisor or manager, how well the employee gets along with coworkers, whether or not he or she feels part of a team that’s working on something important, and the connection between his or her individual job and the final output of the organization. Management should be thinking about all these things and doing what it can to enhance satisfaction through methods other than just pay raises. What types of programs designed to increase employee satisfaction are most effective? If you don’t know the answer to this question, the first thing to do is to get employee input. To a certain extent, it’s situational, so managers need to have good relationships with their employees so that they understand what motivates
