Keys to develop a better work environment through motivation

A happy employee creates a great work environment and as a result: it is more profitable, that is why companies and businesses gain value by having much more involved workers on their staff; For this, they carry out actions and measures, such as promoting teamwork , which help to motivate and commit them to the end of said company.

WHAT MOTIVATES YOUR EMPLOYEE?

Facebook has carried out 500,000 online surveys of its employees in order to find out about their work environment, their salaries or how they reconcile their work with their private life.

Gore Tex is a team-based organization that encourages personal initiative from all of its employees. There are no chains of command or predetermined communication channels, since they communicate with each other directly.

At Dropbox there are not only attractive salaries, but the productivity and happiness of the company's workers also play a very important role. That is why there is a week where the usual work is stopped and the staff is allowed to work on independent projects, allowing workers to be creative and with the possibility that some project will come up with ideas to launch a new product. Another example is   Google and its slides.

How much does motivation influence your work environment?

Motivation is one of the internal factors within the company that requires more attention. "The motive" is what drives a person to act in a certain way or at least, that causes a tendency towards a specific behavior.

A series of elements are identified that are classified as factors that support work motivation ; in most cases we can classify them according to Herzberg's bifactorial theory.

Hygiene factors that refer to the work environment and are extrinsic to the job, which is external to it, and motivating factors that refer to the content of the job and are intrinsic to oneself.

Labor factors:

a) Salary and benefits.

b) Job security or degree of confidence of the worker about his continuity in employment.

c) The possibilities of promotion and of aspiring to more within the company itself, with a view to achieving labor and social status for the employee.

d) The working conditions that include working hours, job security, in terms of risks, the characteristics of the workplace itself and its facilities and materials.

The Microsoft company stands out for its work environment based on "flexibility", that is, there is total freedom of where and when workers can work, all its workers have the ability to decide if they work from home, go to the client's house or if they do it from the office itself. This allows for a great motivating environment, they have a very inspiring environment and a great quality of life is maintained for all the people who are part of that team.

e) The style of supervision -The case of   Gore Tex is based on a team organization, encourages the personal initiative of all its workers, there are no hierarchies thus causing a more formal relationship between them. They always encourage innovation and the contribution of each worker to the company's decision-making.

Motivating factors:

a) The achievement of achievements: being able to reach the objectives of the task that has been proposed for each worker is for Herzberg the most important motivating element.

b) The characteristics of the task or objective that has to be fulfilled: it refers to whether he likes the task itself, feels comfortable and is capable of carrying it out. Therefore, companies must seek diversity and variety of tasks, seeking to avoid routine and monotony. We see it in Dropbox which allows each employee to work on something of their own, fostering creativity and new ideas.

c) The implication of knowledge and skills: In general, a task is usually motivating when it represents a challenge of intermediate difficulty for the worker.

d) Aid for the elderly, economic benefits, social benefits, training, etc., that companies have for their employees, such as financial aid for their training, an example is Facebook, which conducts personal interviews to find out what each employee needs

e) Fun at work: We have the example of the case of Google, which has a gym, language classes, dentists, relaxation rooms with billiards, ping pong tables, table football, water pools, 11 cafeterias with free food and drinks and slides to move from one floor to another.

In summary, although the motivations of the employees are subjective, it is clear that the work environment is of vital importance, as is making the workers see that they are part of it and, to achieve this, the commitment to offer them flexibility, the possibility of projects and facilities both family and economic, it helps both to develop their creativity and to work in their place where they want to work, that is the real key to having motivated workers that increases customer satisfaction and results in profits for the company.

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