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Any manager who employs people will know how difficult it is to:
1. Select the right candidate for the job
2. Keep good people
3. Motivate the 81% of people who are either "in neutral" or actively disengaged.
The cost to any business of ensuring maximum productivity is intense. Most companies struggle to achieve any more than 20% real productive hours due to:
o Lack of "future" motivation
o Absenteeism
o Lack of self discipline
o Poor resource management
o Poor time management
o Conflict within the organization
o General personal or group dissatisfaction
o Personal relationship problems
o Health problems
o and a large and growing problem in the workplace - generalized and specific anxieties, depression and other mental issues.
These "Organizational Mind" issues can not be deal with by enforcing workplace rules or creating an authoritarian environment. If you try this dissatisfaction will grow and you will be always throwing more and more money into producing less and less. This is what destroys companies.
You also need to be very wary of coming up with the latest "you beaut" organizational or culture change program to make a difference. Statistics show very clearly that 70% of change initiatives in organizations fail to produce any where near the desired results, and if handled poorly, can cause significant damage to a company.
Understanding People Motivation
Normal organizational psychology is often ineffective in stress workplace environments. By the time management realizes it has a problem, the damage is already well and truly eating away at the organization's foundations - which are of course, its people.
And you can not treat all your people the same way. Those that are already motivated will be de-motivated, and probably offended, by change programs that address the issues of those less motivated. Your best people often leave for greener pastures.
Those who are not motivated or, by their negative approach to live, are "actively dis-engaged" and causing problems, will resist change sturdily. For management this can be incredibly frustrating and demoralizing. So often management, and especially HR people, will justify a minor success in a small area of the organization as success for the whole change program, to save face and justify the huge cost to the company. In today's fluid economic climate you can not afford to take risks with staff "meltdown". It will destroy your company, your career, and your livelihood.
However, having rung the warning bells as I have, there is a way to ensure that the maximum number of people in your organization are positive and productive. The money you have been throwing at the wall in your change program is more often than not more useful and more productively valuable evaluating your non-motivated people for personal issues and approach.
This must be done, not being having them sit through psychological profiling and psychometric tests, but having independent "consultants" actually working with them on a personal emotional level. These people need to be independent and stress absolute confidence so they are seen not to be reporting personal information back to management. The must be seen to be highly knowledgeable, professional, respectful and above all caring towards the people they work with. They must not be the organizations HR people or seen to be psychologists. Change managers who take on this role must have special training in stress management, unconscious motivations and emotional memory, team congruency, and be able to establish rapport with both individuals and groups at a very personal level.
An Australian organizational team has finally come up with the goods in the form of a carefully structured distance education training package designed exclusively for senior management, business owners, HR specialists and Change Managers. Called "Organizational Mind" the program is based on 25 years of special clinical level research on how people derive their values and belief systems and how they are driven by unconscious programs that can be changed very subtly in a business or organizational environment. The program covers the important issues of how an individual's mind really functions and how it interacts with others in a group. It covers the role of stress in de-motivation and lays out clear structural pathways to economically improve productivity at all levels in an organization. The program even provides the digital presentation materials for practitioners and at completion issues a Certificate of Proficiency in the science and art of Organizational Mind. This is a very different cutting edge approach to organizational change and efficiency.
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Source by Gary Johnston
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