In a recent survey, it has been revealed that a majority of employees leave their current organizations because they are unhappy with their jobs. This might sound surprising, but the truth is that employees are more likely to stay in an organization with the healthy work culture.
In fact, there can be several other reasons behind employees’ discontentment in an organization such as poor management, low compensation benefits, and fewer growth opportunities.
Indeed, this has become a matter of concern for many organizations as unhappy employees affect the productivity, performance and employee retention rates of the organization.
Therefore, if employers notice poor results during an employee performance review, this might probably be the time to analyse how employees feel about working for the company.
Try to find out whether they are happy and satisfied with the job responsibilities and work environment. To get started, try asking employees the below-given questions to know if they are happy being a part of the company:
How do they feel about their current job responsibilities?
To begin with, managers must ask employees if they are satisfied with the job role and responsibilities that are assigned to them. This will help employers to know if the employee is happy with the role alignment.
However, managers might receive a mixed response to this question, and it might become difficult to conclude if the employee is happy or not. For a lucid response, managers must dig deeper and seek answers to other questions as well.
What do they like most and least about their job role?
As a next step, managers can ask the employees what it is that they enjoy most about their job role and what is at the bottom of the list. While the employee is giving a response, try to find out the reasons why they do not enjoy doing the particular task.
This allows managers to know what keeps the employees motivated. Consequently, employers should try to adopt changes that help to enhance employee interest and engagement.
What is the feedback they would like to give regarding the management?
Whether received from employees to management or vice-versa, feedback is critical to the scope of improvement. Also, being unhappy with management is one of the common reasons for employees’ unhappiness in the workplace.
Thus, feedback from employees allows employers to improvise things that act as barriers between engaged and disengaged employees. An additional benefit is that employees feel valued in the company and they appreciate the freedom to express their opinions.
Is there any challenge they face during their daily work schedule?
It might be a possibility that employees are disengaged or unhappy due to unaddressed challenges and problems at work. These challenges can be related to lack of resources, need for skill training, errors in workflow and much more. As a result, the employee performance management reports might not turn out to be impressive. Thus, make sure that such challenges are not hampering employee performance and satisfaction.
What is their thought on compensation and perks in the organization?
Meeting employees’ expectations in terms of compensation is essential for companies to retain a talented workforce. Because it is a well-known fact that a majority of employees frequently change jobs in order to get a pay raise. To avoid this situation, managers can implement appraisal strategies to give a pay raise based on employee performance reviews.
Conclusion
Employees are valuable assets to any organization. An unhappy workforce results in an increased rate of employee attrition along with a diminishing productivity curve. To avoid this, managers can perform an employee happiness survey by asking them the aforementioned questions. Nevertheless, receiving a negative response might be an outcome of job responsibilities not aligned with the skillset of the employee or unhealthy work culture. Thus, managers must ensure that these factors are resolved as early as possible and do not affect the productivity and happiness of employees at the workplace.
