EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION linked to how well the company is organized claims family business consultant Professor Ken Mackenzie
How well organized is your business? Do you enable your workers to be successful? If you do, you will have discoverd the key to motivating your employess and increasing the value of your business.
(PRWEB) March 2, 2004 --Addressing CEOs from family-owned businesses at a recent family business workshop, Professor Mackenzie of the Atlanta-based Family Business Institute and their on-line Internet organization, Family Business Experts, indicated the best way to motivate employees was to make sure that their businesses were "well-organized".
Are you satisfied with how well your business is organized?" asked Professor Mackenzie. Simply stated, well-organized" family businesses allow workers to succeed.
When workers are allowed to succeed, they become better motivated.
Dr. Mackenzie has developed an on-line assessment tool that measures how well a company is organized.
Mackenzie indicated that his research has identified 55 leadership practices found in successful businesses. Knowing how to best motivate your employees is one of the leadership practices that many family businesses fail to achieve.
Don Schwerzler, Managing Director of the Internet organization Family Business Experts indicated that as family businesses grow, the owner of the business tends to transition away from being involved in the day-to-day activities of the business. We see the owner changing his role from working in" the business to where they are working on" the business.
What is the downside when the owner of a family business makes this transition?
When the boss" is working in" the business, along side the employees, the workers
tend to stay highly motivated. But when the boss" transitions out of the daily routine, a leadership void is created -- unless the business is well organized.
Successful family businesses become better organized by developing infrastructure that helps to formalize the management practices of the company.
Without infrastructure, the family business will not be able to grow and improve profits.
What are the signs of a well-organized company? In a well-organized company:
- Every employee has an excellent chance for performance success.
- Every employee is motivated to succeed.
- Every employee understands how individual and group success is measured.
- Every employee understands how his position, department, and division fit into the companys strategic direction.
- Every employee understands how his job is connected to all related jobs and how his work output is connected to all upstream and downstream production.
- The company enjoys performance success.
- The company continuously adapts and improves its strategy, production systems, and organizing.
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