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- Employee involvement: the missing piece of the productivity puzzle? - Productivity Puzzle
- Sara Caputo, MA
- The Productivity Puzzle:
How can I push them further and increase their drive to achieve more? In both cases there is a perceived gap, between what they believe their people are capable of, and what their people are comfortable or willing to give.
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I believe this lies at the heart of our productivity challenge. Typically, this would form part of a classic engagement question, the age-old question of how to increase discretionary effort.
But this feels so last century. This leads to alignment and synergy, which in turn creates that precious sweet spot where work feels effortless and in flow. Too frequently, our work environments are designed to prevent rather than encourage flow.
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Deep dialogue and listening, moments of stillness and creative play can all stimulate flow in a way that extended frantic periods of activity rarely achieve. A river flows at a rate determined by its incline and the volume of water above it. This is the energy that is driving it — literally its strength and force.
Water can move around boulders and rocks and find its way when the force is strong enough to push it. Happy, fulfilled workers, who feel valued and are recognised for the contribution they make are naturally more productive.
Employee involvement: the missing piece of the productivity puzzle? - Productivity Puzzle
The Lean model of empowering workers at every level of an organisation to make a difference is an extremely effective way of boosting productivity. As part of an experiment funded by the Swedish government , nurses at a retirement home have worked six-hour days on an eight-hour salary for the past year. The result was increased productivity, higher quality of care and happier workers.
Even bosses believe that a shorter working day would be beneficial for business, with four in 10 saying in a recent survey that they believed their staff would be just as productive in six hours as in eight— twice as many as the number of respondents who thought the move would decrease productivity. Posted in Uncategorised and tagged Fixing the Foundations , kumo recruitment , Lean , manufacturing , Productivity Puzzle.
Sara Caputo, MA
On an industry level, we need to help the rest learn from the best. Engage for Success has been successful in promoting the importance of employee engagement and indeed employee voice — identified by MacLeod and Clarke in their original report as one of the enablers of engagement.
One employee in three says that their managers are good at allowing them to influence decision-making. On a national level, the Government needs to recognise the importance of employee involvement for productivity. It is welcome that after many years of stalled productivity growth, the subject is finally receiving much-deserved attention.
The Productivity Puzzle:
However, there is very little on the workplace, on employee involvement, or indeed on employees at all in the plan. Any attempt to tackle the productivity puzzle — by employers and by the government — must recognise the importance of employee involvement and voice at work. We hope that this report can help contribute to taking this debate forwards.
The stall in productivity should be a real cause for concern. While the findings are instructive, in a way they are also unsurprising. Why does the UK score poorly on employee involvement? This is about welcoming, encouraging and valuing employee concerns, views and suggestions.