Tuesday, May 22, 2012

5 Ways To Improve Your Companies Productivity

Sprietzer and Porath found that 16% Thriving employees have a better overall performance than his colleagues. 125% (self-reporting) of burnouts they have a level lower than his peers, 32% more committed and 46% more satisfied with their jobs.

This fact suggests that the welfare (well-being) and happiness of employees in Jakarta to be important not only for the productivity of employees, but also the company's growth.

There are five steps that can be considered by the company to ensure the productivity of employees and managers stay awake in Jakarta which will be more chaotic and worse traffic.

Working at home

First, support and encourage enterprises to develop an employment policy that supports employees to work at home. One of the major causes of traffic congestion in Jakarta is the need for residents to leave and return to work. Reducing the number of people who go off to work each day, will minimize the possibility of traffic congestion.

There are many patterns of policies that can be taken, such a pattern to work from home every two or three days a week. Such patterns can reduce the traffic load, without loss of coordination of face-to-face is needed in the office.

Second, do the investment in information technology. With the increasing ease of technology, coordination between departments and among employees can be done remotely. A variety of free applications available on the iPhone application store, Blackberry, and Android to increase productivity and coordination can begin to be used.

For example, Yammer microblogging can be used as an internal application for companies. Yammer facilitate discussion and coordination of employees from a distance, thanks to the focus group facility that is easy to use.

In addition, chat applications such WhatsApp can be used for coordination among employees. WhatsApp worth was chosen because it is multiplatform, and can be used by those who use the IOS, Blackberry, or Android.

Other applications, Viber, can be used to communicate using voice (voice) using VOIP for free. Teleconference expenses can be reduced significantly.

The Company, together with the association, also can lobby the government to have public policy nor Mr incentives that could improve access and quality of the Internet in Jakarta. Of course, there is an urgent need to have adequate Internet access for work.

Third, provide training and create an environment that encourages employees to work smarter. In this case more important to work smarter rather than harder. Rather than working from 6 am until 11 pm, to avoid congestion, for example, employees are supported and trained to manage his schedule better.

In addition, employees can also be trained in order to coordinate better from afar. For example, employees can be trained to use email and information technology more effectively. The manager can also be trained in leadership is open (open leadership) who will be able to help them cope with a wide range of issues in this era of transparency and openness.

Fourth, try to improve customer service by phone and social media. This will help reduce the need for customers to travel to the service. It also means less need to put employees in a large number of companies for customer service. Provide incentives to customers to make transactions and interactions over the phone and the Internet. In fact, if necessary, intensify the use of courier services for sending and receiving of goods.

Fifth, create a culture of high responsibility. One of the concerns that are common in innovation in the field of human resources is thus about unintended Consequences of unproductive employees. With outside visual surveillance, the employee concerned does not do his job properly. Companies can create a clear signposts for the employee to continue doing his job on the go. Incentives and disincentives should be introduced and implemented well. But, more importantly, there must be a paradigm shift

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