I'm happy to come back to work on Monday -DO YOU

Recently i seen this hoarding in the way to Hitech City, Hyderabad. This made me think what really make an employee to come back to work on Monday as an Happy and engaged employee. Here i would like to mention what i mean by Engaged-for me who is engaged to the Organization is emotionally and intellectually attached to the Company and its Growth and more precise who invest continuously on his/her personal development which in turn will contribute to the organization.

Just coming on Monday morning as duty don’t make great difference. But Organizations’ also have to invest lot of efforts for this Monday effect. The Investment will be
q Investment in Organization Design and Job Design
Organization Design
· Organization Design have to take care in the concern of clarity in the reporting Structures-Whom he/she reporting-Functionally or Administratively
· Organization Design have to take care of Span of Control-Min and
Max reportees
· Organization Design have to take care of the purpose of Reporting-I
mean what context Reporting Manager will guide and coach
his Team to achieve Goals.
Job Design-This can be views different point of views like
Employee, Reporting Manager, Organization Goals and
Culture
· For an Employee point of view Variety of Skill Sets, Control over
work, Relative value of that kind of role in the Organization,
Challenging tasks, Career Progression for this kind roles and
Market value for the Skills job Demanding-but all these also have

Relative point. Sometimes in my career i seen different kind of
employee who are very comfortable to work in very limited Skill sets
or very routine work, limited control over his work. What i feel
Individual Orientations towards career make a lot of
Contribution to the Job Design.
· For an Reporting Manager point of view Job Design have to be simple to monitor, Quantifiable tasks and Observable quality contributions, Significant Value Contribution in the Team Members Performance
· For an Organization point of view its very critical because this is foundation for the Organization Performance. The Organization have to see in the way requirement for the
Skill variety, employee efforts in the work completion ( i mean Man
Vs Machine Contribution in the Work delivery ).employee
motivation effects and requirement of Creativity and Innovation
contributions required by the employee for Organization
Performance .

Investment in Recruitment in Selection

· Recruitment channels have to generate the right kind of pool whom we can select for the employment. Recruitment Communication should clearly spell about Organization Vision and the Job Specification and Career Progression in the Organization for this particular job. In the same time we better communicate for any limitation in the Job
· Selection-This is very critical stage. We have to understand the significant importance of Person -Organization fitment besides Person - Job fitment. I feel HR person in the selection panel plays major role. For this he have understand Organization Culture and sub culture factors in the Department/Unit the candidate job is places and Organization Life Cycle. What i mean if incase Organization in the stabilizing Phase not much into Growth phase, if the candidate is vary ambitious and aggressive, may be organization might be not in a position to give opportunity for the growth the candidate is expecting. Another important factor all Members of Selection Board have to be trained in Selection, that will increase the fitment ratio.

Induction and on the Job Training
Induction plays major role in the employees first impression .HR have to play vital role in giving information on Organizational Polices and little insight in Organizational Values and Culture. In the same time its a good practice the employee will be given an Orientation of all other functions in the Organization
Through On the Job Training, the employee feel ease to get in to Job and deliver results

Performance Management System

The Performance Management system in the Origination should
Ø Very Simple and Clear to all the Members
Ø It have to be transparent
Ø Its always good practice PMS will built on Quantitative Measurements
Ø Clearly have to spell what’s your expectations in the context of performance and can be expected Reward System
Ø Another major point is Appraisal Education.


Investment in Training and Development

This is very critical how an employee take this investment means to him. This investments somewhere have to align the career aspiration of the employees. If these are not aligning with employee aspiration, he/she don’t attach any value for this.
Another point employee should get an opportunity and support from his Team and Supervisors to implement what he/she learned in the Training
Development Investments in employee gives confidence in the Organization that Organization in investment in long term Career Goals of the employee

Investment in Leadership Development

Employee joins Organizations’ and leave Boss-Its perfectly right statement in the Monday Effect. Leadership Development investment in the Organization make a better and choice place for an Employee.
Investment in Communication Skills, Inter personal Skills, Team Performance Management Skills through Leadership Development Programs improve employee satisfaction Quotient ( Are Happy Employee is Productive Employee-I will discuss these in my next postings )


Compensation Standards

This is strategy, will be used depends on Organization Life Cycle, Industry Standards and Skill demand
I strongly believe one saying one of Marketing Head mentioned about “Customer will come to you for cost and he is loyal to you for the Quality”
Here also Compensation will be used as Strategy to attract ( This also depend on the factors I mentioned above ) but to retain all other what I m mentioning the write up is very important

Organization Vision

· I feel single most significant factor why people stay with you. The Top Leader should articulate Vision-which that can move people for initial hurdles ,struggles ,effort and retain in the Organization cause that will give

Ø Purpose
Ø Confidence
Ø Long term Career
Ø Emotional Attachment


I feel above are few( Definitely there will be some more ,but these are few ,I felt important ) of the Investments Organization have to put an Employee will come back to Monday to the Organization as Engaged Employee