Employee Motivation and Teamwork in Organizations

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Employee motivation comprises of an integral factor for raising productivity levels of employees
within organizations (Dewhurst, Guthridge & Mohr, 2009). Enhanced motivation in employees
not only means higher levels of productivity but also indicates lower absenteeism and turnover.
Great Places to Work in the UK, includes various organizations, which undertakes varied
motivational measures. Some of the things that companies adopt in order that they can motivate
their employees to include enhancing levels of trusts and engagement. It has been found greater
the companies include engagement processes, higher is the levels of motivation in employees.
Engagement processes such as training, induction, discussion, participation session’s increases
the trusts of employees within the organization. This, in turn, increases employee's loyalty
towards the organization decreasing their levels of absenteeism and reducing turnover (Burton,
2012). Measuring trust factors by providing values to employees through free services such as
health insurance, dental insurance, travel expenses, food and so on. Developing organizational
HR policies and practices that are conducive to employees can also allow increasing motivation
within employees. Organisational policies such as leaves, benefits and treating employees in
appropriate manner allow building motivational levels in employees. Employees feel highly
motivated in case they are provided with training, learning opportunities and opportunities to
grow. Transparency of organizational policy is another factor that highly motivates employees.
Great Places to Work reflects that some employees felt highly motivated due to the presence of
conducive environment, which could provide an advantage to human creativity. Rentokil Initial
Plc is known to be one of the best places to work for in the UK. Therefore, organizations aim at
providing better and conducive cultures and working environments to provide the best results for
an employee working and functioning, which in turn increases their levels of motivation.
Motivation has been recognized to be an integral factor within organizations and higher the
levels of employee motivation better are the capability of the organization to have enhanced
productive levels.
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Dewhurst, M., Guthridge, M. and Mohr, E., 2009. Motivating people: Getting beyond
money. McKinsey Quarterly, 1(4), pp.12-15. Retrieved on 11th September 2018, from
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