Manager
is the KEY to Employees Engagement
Dear Readers,
This posting is in
continuation of what I wrote in the last one. In this posting, I’ve correlated Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Pareto’s
Principle with Boss Factor in terms of employees’ engagement. Hope you would find it interesting.
1)
Maslow and Boss Factor
in Employees’ Engagement
Managers have a big role
to play in terms of facilitating employees to meet their higher level needs (Maslow’s
hierarchy of needs) at Workplace.
Think of employees
working with a Manager who has more of an autocratic leadership style without
any People Focus. He could still be
successful in terms of meeting all the work-related deliverables. However, his leadership style will lead to
employee’s burn-out and disengagement in the long-term and it will just not be
sustainable.
And think of employees
reporting to someone who gives equal importance for both task and people skills. Someone who gives importance for relationship
and respects people. Someone who shows empathy whenever required.
Who would we want to
report to? Yes. Of course, to the second
boss and not the first one for the obvious reasons.
A good Manager with
effective leadership style will have a big positive impact on the Social needs
and Self-esteem needs of their team members.
Such team members would be much more engaged at their work. When these
needs are disturbed, it will result in disengagement.
2) Pareto principle and Boss factor in Employees Engagement
The Pareto principle
talks about “Vital few and Trivial many Rule”.
It essentially says that 80% of the problems are caused by 20% of the
vital reasons or 80% of the results can be achieved by focussing on vital 20% aspects. Hence it’s important to identify those vital
reasons (20%) and address them first.
In my opinion, in Employees’
Engagement too, the Boss factor would be the foremost important “vital”
parameter. If it is addressed
effectively at all levels across the Organisation, it will help the
organisations to take care of the employees’ engagement to a very large extent.
In the presence of a good
Boss Factor, all the other initiatives on employees engagement will be very effective
and in the absence of it, it will be a reverse situation.
So the Boss Factor forms
part of “vital few” when it comes to engaging employees across the Organisation.
What do you think of the
above correlations and what is your take on it..?
You may share your
thoughts and comments..
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