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Sprout - Staff Motivation

Sprout - Staff Motivation

Date: 2014-05-09
When conducting an employee satisfaction survey with a client recently, we were not entirely surprised to find that 30% of the respondents felt that they were not being properly rewarded.

We base our HR philosophy on the Herzberg two factor theory to understanding employee satisfaction. The first factors are Hygiene factors with the rule of thumb being that these can't enhance performance but the absence of them will cause dissatisfaction e.g. satisfactory pay and decent working conditions. The Motivator factors are used to enhance the performance of the team including recognition and promotion possibilities.

If John's salary is R25,000 pm, he will cost the company in excess of R1 million over 3 years, factoring in all the costs of employment. Most assets have a useful life of 3 years. The thought that goes into acquiring an asset for R1 million and the maintenance that will happen to make it last 3 years should be no different to decision to hire John and keep him working at full capacity.

Find out if there is dissatisfaction in your team and what staff need to perform at their best then put a plan in place to manage it. This may change your staff attitudes without changing your payroll costs.