Employee Productivity Improvement

February 9, 2011 – Productivity improvement techniques can help increase the outputs from your employees substantially. In this post I’ll show you four main areas where effective benefits can be found.

The first area to improve is employee knowledge. Start by improving the training being provided to employees to make sure they’re not being expected to do on-the-job training by themselves (i.e. discovering how to do their job themselves). A variety of innovation strategies in training techniques such as web-based training and self-paced DVD-ROMs can help improve the training process.

Next, focus on how you’re using employees. Do you have the right work processes, along with the right tools the jobs, for workers to do their job effectively? Productivity improvement gains can be made simply by increasing communication channels to allow more collaboration with employees. This type of feedback can often identify where processes can have flaws or new tools are required to help individuals do their job.

Work environments can also play a big part in motivation and performance of all employees. Working in a dark cluttered environment can cause a employees to almost go into a sleep-like state. Make sure that the health and safety of employees is always paramount and that offices and workspaces are clean and sufficiently bright whether through careful lighting or direct sunlight. The preference is for natural daylight to be used as it decreases the amount of eyestrain caused by fluorescent lighting.

Finally, focus in on the actual happiness & motivations of your employees. Salary levels are not the sole motivation. It is important that performance evaluation standards are administered correctly nor to ensure that workers are being reported with the right promotions and wage increases. You should also be looking at other motivations including third level education, hours of work, working on the correct roles for the training and being allowed to plan out their own work schedules.

 

 

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