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Motivate employees and make them perform better (7 tips)

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  It is only relatively recently that attention has been  paid  to the satisfaction and well-being of employees and their associated motivation.  That started about thirty years ago.  Before that time, the relationship between employer and employee was simply one that consisted of the exchange of the work to be performed and the salary to be paid.  Until gradually attention was paid to working more efficiently and then working "more fun".  Companies discovered that companies with happy employees prospered. Now it's completely turned around.  During the larger HR events that take place annually worldwide, the  employee experience  is before and employee experience after.  Matthew Wride, who co-wrote the book The Employee Experience, formulates employee experience as follows: “Employee experience is the sum of the different perceptions employees have of their interactions with the organization in which they work.” The better the emplo...

Should you hire a non-ideal candidate or not?

There is a serious shortage of staff.  That is no longer news, but has been a hard fact for a while.  In the event of scarcity, all kinds of principles soon begin to shift.  Necessarily, so is the apology.  But with the adoption of 'two arms and two legs', the question remains whether you solve problems with this, or just bring more problems into your home.  It will therefore be extra important to keep the basic criteria in mind in your hiring policy.  If you cannot set all the requirements that you would wish for a candidate, which ones should certainly be guaranteed? The 4 most important qualities in a candidate In addition to traditional recommendations, hard practice and research has taught us that the following four traits have the greatest impact on teams.  In this blog you can read what you should pay attention to and how you can support your current employees while you have a shortage of personnel.  But also what you can do structurally so...

6 HR METRICS FOR MEASURING EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION

As we slowly but surely  define  the future of work  , organizations are increasingly looking to make  the well-being of their employees one of their top pr iorities  .  Aside from obvious ethical reasons, employee productivity is a motivation for companies to take better care of their workforce. In short, satisfied employees are more efficient at work. Satisfaction is, of course, a highly subjective and personal factor and far from easy to measure.  The  best alternative  to measure employee wellbeing is to measure their motivation. Employees get their motivation from having a goal with sufficient support and certainty to make their daily work meaningful. But how do you know whether your organization is doing enough for its employees?  How do you keep your employees motivated?  And why is it important at all? If you don't know where to look or where to look, measuring employee motivation isn't easy either.  In fact, as organiz...

More connection with employer than ever

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Earlier employee experience survey* already showed that working Netherlands feels more connected than ever with the employer in this corona time.  Organizations made more effort to maintain engagement and connectedness, including by facilitating working from home and allowing onboarding to take place online. Enthusiasm, calculated via the so-called  360 degree feedback software , rose from -3 in 2020 to +12 in 2021. This means that for the first time in years, there are more “promoters” (enthusiastic employees) than “detractors” (fewer or non-enthusiastic employees). enthusiastic employees/critics).  Across the board, the average satisfaction of Dutch employees is 7.4.  That was a 7.1 last year.  “Just like before corona, we want to have fun at work.  Job satisfaction is still the most important theme for working people in the Netherlands”, says Elise Kamhoot, research consultant at  Integron  . Drivers of new employees Employment conditions ...

What does an Application Manager do?

Virtually every company needs IT software to carry out business activities and  360 performance review software . Our information technology landscape is more complex than ever and the costs to maintain it continue to rise. Application managers have become indispensable. What is application management? Application management is the process of managing the operation, versioning, and maintenance of a software solution throughout its lifecycle. For business owners, management is important for business productivity, revenue and control. For users, security, privacy, version control and general control of app processes are important. Application management deals with different generations of technology and applications in different phases of maintenance. The complexity of software varies from simple (think of apps on mobile devices) to extremely complex (for example with electronic payments). A skilled application manager: has knowledge of system design, development, implementation and ...

OKRS, Objective SETTING and PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

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OKRs shouldn't be a presentation the executives apparatus. There ought to never be an immediate association between OKR accomplishment and pay or reward. Anyway it's a great source to do continious criticism circles with your immediate reports. The mixed consequences of these continuous and normal input circles are extraordinary markers for a later presentation assessment, for example during your yearly presentation and advancement talks.  No immediate association, however roundabout - presently, this proposal may vary from some other free okr performance management system . We at How-to-OKR.com firmly accept that OKRs ought to be straightforwardly used to do customary registrations with your representatives. These are short input chats on conduct, job, inspiration, commendation or analysis. In the event that you utilize the mixed consequences of these input talks as "commitment" marker for an authority execution meeting, then, at that point, there is a backhanded ass...