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Money as a Motivator or Incentive

 

Top 50 Retention factors found Money  was last in the list of importance.

Money is rarely the most important factor in a person's decision to leave.

http://www.shrm.org/hrresources/whitepapers_published/CMS_000117.asp

 

Less Motivated Employees Result in Decrease Productivity

70%
of your employees are less motivated today than they used to be.
80% of your employees could perform significantly better if they wanted to.
50%
of your employees only put enough effort into their work to keep their job.

http://www.employer-employee.com/motivat.htm#number1

 

Boost Productivity

44% increase in team performance with the right incentive programs

 25% increase in productivity when offering the right incentive program for individual employees

http://promomagazine.com/research/industrytrends/marketing_thank_counts/


Motivate Employees

What do employees find to be the top 3 motivators

#1 SUPPORT & INVOLVEMENT                             Extremely  Important

Manager provides employee information he needs                  66%                

Manager supports employee when he makes mistake              57%    

Manager involves employee when making decisions                51%    

Manager asks employee for his/her opinion or ideas               49%

# 2 PERSONAL PRAISE                                           Extremely Important

Employee is personally thanked for doing good work           56%    

Employee is given a verbal praising                                       50%    

Manager seeks out employee to commend him/her                48%    

Employee is praised for good work in front of another         31%    

 

#3 AUTONOMY & AUTHORITY                       Extremely important    Very important

Employee is allowed to decide how best to do work            46%                         42%               

Employee is given increased job autonomy                           39%                         48%               

Employee is given increased authority in the job                   39%                          46%   

Employee is given a choice of assignment                             21%                          46%   


Ranking for other motivators

# 4 Flexible working hours ranging from time off, flex hours and comp time

#5 Learning Development- support employee learning new skills

#6 Manager Availability and Time

#7 Written Praise – thank you notes, cards or letter in file

#8 Electronic Praise via email or voice mail

#9 Public Praise such as a letter, ceremony or recognition in the newsletter

#10 Cash and Cash Gifts

#11 Achievements and Awards

#12 Nominal Gifts such as flowers and food

#13 Public Perks – Parking space pass around trophy etc.

http://www.nelson-motivation.com/bobsarticles.cfm


Recognition

Recognize Employees in a Timely Fashion

53% of employees expected recognition for good work soon after completing the task.

20% expect recognition immediately after doing the job.

http://www.nelson-motivation.com/bobsarticles.cfm


Employee recognition was identified as a critical source of satisfaction and retention.

Reported by a Gallup pole survey of over 80,000 employees. http://www.octanner.com/news/Gallup_Survey.htm

 

Managers and Motivation using Non-monetary

73% percent of managers reported that they received the results they expected when they used

non-monetary recognition either immediately or soon thereafter

http://www.nelson-motivation.com/bobsarticles.cfm


83% of employees report wanting more time with their families according to Monster.com

http://promomagazine.com/incentives/motivating_empolyees_110905/index.html


Motivating Different Generations


Veterans Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y or Nexters

For Information on what motivates different generations call us or send us an email for more information. achieve@achievingcorporateexcellence.com

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Stress and Work

What do employees identify as a cause of stress.

 

41% of employees cited their workload. Doing more with less.

31% of employees cited problems, from difficult coworkers to demanding customers.

28% of employees cited “juggling work and personal life.”

http://meetingsnet.com/ar/meetings_work_stress_handle/

Time Management


Where does time go:

People working 40 hours per week lose a minimum of 3 hours per day or 15 hours per week due to poor time management.

Responding to interruptions that are not a priority quickly eats up the day.

With one interruption every 8 minutes lasting approximately 5 minutes.

Usually people experience 6 to7interruptions each hour.

This equals 50 to 60 interruptions during the day taking up 250 minutes or 4 hours.

50% of the workday is lost in this Black Hole of Interruptions.

http://www.mainstreetmom.com/jm_pg_hole.htm


 

Interruptions result in uncompleted work.

Include interruptions such as phone calls, emails and person-to-person interruptions, the number of interruptions can be as high as 170 interactions per day. This can result in a backlog of 200 to 300 hours of uncompleted work.

http://fastcompany.com/online/14/managetime.html

 

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