Industrial approach for optimization of resources

Tell me in India, which organization doesn’t have pressure in terms of work these days? I mean start with IT, retail, BPO, telecon, chemicals, FMCG- every sector has companies which are caught by the immediate requirement of “Consumer and Customer Needs”. Every company has targets to reach and each employee is loaded with a loads of work that needs to be finished off by 7 PM (Indian standard time for leaving offices). That definitely suggests these companies should be looking for recruitment 24 X 7- well not true always. There are organization thriving on the idea of cheap workforce and stressing them too much in their workload to meet their end objectives. Indeed these are the organizations where an entire work force is stressed and can only survive in the market but not grow. Because , however fast you are in providing services, whatever is the magnitude of service you provide , there is a point where you will stop if you don’t innovate . That wont happen if your employees are stressed and dis satisfied and so there you go, sooner to diminish in the market.

Well, I have been wondering on the best Industrial Approach for optimization of resources and I present what I call the 7 golden rules to manage your workforce :

(1) Prepare them before assigning any project or activity. – Always take their opinion before you assign the job. Take their feedback and let them know why they are considered for the same and provide necessary training.

(2) Encourage them regularly through meetings , seek their feedback on what is going right and what needs to be improved.

(3) Realize early when they feel over burdened and be ready and willing to shed off some work load from them. You may not like it at first stance but it definitely would pay you back in the long run when you would see the quality in his/her performance.

(4) Free them often . Do provide them a free and leisure time for thinking, creativity and personal development within their job so that workplace is not at all burden for them and they feel like at home. Let it be like Wednesday , the mid of the week not far from starting not far from weekend;) let them think today and be free. (of course do a bit of minimum job for the day)

(5) Empower your resources. Let them feel confident that they can also take decisions for their company. Of course the level of decision making may vary at different positions but don’t involve too much of red-tapism in the organization.

(6) Create a happy hour in a day – Just go to their seat , tell them a joke. Tell them what you did to the neighbours dog when he pooped in at your yard. Make sure , there is one hour which is a Happy Hour at work per 8 hours. Come on , you can compromise an hour to achieve something worth more than that..I would say this would be a great investment but invest it right.

(7) Trust them . >Seriously guys, trust your employees. You have recruited them, spend so much time with them, they are just like family to you – then why dont trust them during any appraisal, promotion interview , corporate meetings etc. In the end, this would build effective relation with your subordinates.

So, guys above formula – the 7 signs of a happy workspace is called PERFECT ( Notice the first letter of every point). You may feel it differently but I am sure , this is what I am going to believe in, as my career advances.

So, do you still have a PERFECT relationship with your employees ?