How to Improve Employee Morale: Assessment & Intervention
Make an assessment: If you suspect there is an employee morale problem at work, which will happen, the best way to address it is to take some time and effort to assess it.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Make an assessment: If you suspect there is an employee morale problem at work
This may be hard to do because it means admitting that things are not as good as you might have hoped.
Low production, bad attitudes, absenteeism, lateness, and passive/active anger can come out as result of poor morale.
Get a general sense of it.
Pen & Paper:
There are many P & P assessment tools you can find on the Internet.
Among them, the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) is a favorite used by internal and external consultants which can be tailored to a particular organization or group.
Interviews:
One-on-one, anonymous interviews with a random sample of people that should be no more than an hour can be very helpful in getting non-group think answers and finding out what’s really going on.
How has morale been in the past? Have there been any major changes in routine, personnel, policy, supervisors, business, profit, etc.; -
Step 2: which will happen
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Step 3: the best way to address it is to take some time and effort to assess it.
Detailed Guide
This may be hard to do because it means admitting that things are not as good as you might have hoped.
Low production, bad attitudes, absenteeism, lateness, and passive/active anger can come out as result of poor morale.
Get a general sense of it.
Pen & Paper:
There are many P & P assessment tools you can find on the Internet.
Among them, the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) is a favorite used by internal and external consultants which can be tailored to a particular organization or group.
Interviews:
One-on-one, anonymous interviews with a random sample of people that should be no more than an hour can be very helpful in getting non-group think answers and finding out what’s really going on.
How has morale been in the past? Have there been any major changes in routine, personnel, policy, supervisors, business, profit, etc.;
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