What Drives Workplace Productivity?
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Workplace productivity is highly important to ensure the quality of the workplace and profitability of the organization. We have basic drives that complement each other and increase the workplace productivity accordingly.
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Regardless of the business you are in, or the size of the business, there are always multiple ways to improve the productivity of a workplace.
The following list contains some of the changes you can do to improve the productivity within your organization:
1. Leadership and Management
Clear vision is essential for an effective leadership. A leader needs to be clear about his/her business plan that should work towards an improvement in the company. The vision looks ahead in the future and the leadership roles need to be capable in leading the organization towards that clear goal. Strong leadership and management identifies opportunities and strengths of the organization, inspiring the team to work towards those opportunities.
2. Workplace Culture
Workplace culture should strive to be productive, professional, and positive. When a positive relationship is established between team members and the leadership, then the workplace becomes a productive place. Positive relationships between staff, teams and managers is an important feature of a productive workplace. This type of workplace culture will motivate, drive, and encourage employees to do their very best at work.
3. Add Value to the Culture
Employees are not just there to complete the work and leave. Every workplace should add value to their employees, respect their insights and validate their experience. If a workplace environment encourages ideas, it can only be beneficial to the company as a whole. These ideas can make things smarter, innovative, and more productive.
4. Innovation and Technology
Two very strong words and highly important for any organization today are innovating and using technology. Innovation plays a big role in increasing the workplace productivity. Planning and organizing has become easier and better allowing for a productive workflow. This innovation is thanks to the advancement in technology. If an organization is welcoming innovation and encouraging the use and investment in the newest technology, it is working towards a much more productive workplace.
5. Employees and Their Skills
People are a great asset and the more the skills your employees’ possess, the better your workplace environment can get. Skills drive innovation which drives the use of technology. If your employees are capable to use the technology, then you have skilled workers that will need less supervision, make fewer mistakes, all while accepting more responsibility. Good investment in people and their skills eventually minimizes the staff turnover and creates quality workplace backbone.
6. Work Organization and Collaboration
Structured workplace with easily adaptable processes allows the team to grow as the market and technology changes. Also, collaborating with other industries by exchanging information and ideas within your industry, improves the workplace productivity. This access to new ideas often leads to cost-reduction discovery of better ways to organize your workplace and invest in proper technology tools.
7. Assessing Your Workplace Productivity
Lastly, it is important to keep a track of the investments you make in your workplace. Once you assess the value of investing in bettering your workplace, you will know what is working and making a difference in your company. Some of the differences can be the related to the staff size, skillset, or even to the market size you are operating in.
Once the changes are implemented in one area of the workplace, it is often reinforced in the next area. The areas we focus on, are usually crucial for the improvement of the productivity of the organization itself and increased performance overall. Drivers of the workplace productivity emphasize that it’s about working smarter rather than working harder.
Jensen Carlyle is a business researcher who is currently focusing on BPM and process optimization using software such as JobTraQ.
