How Do You Improve Morale In The Workplace?
Once employees start complaining about each other and about their work, it isn’t easy to turn the situation around. These are symptoms of workers feeling overworked and unappreciated. It can also start from one troublemaker. Whatever the cause, here’s a method that greatly improved employee relations at my job. Start a weekly drawing for some simple prizes. Give it a catchy name or slogan and inform the staff of the contest. Make a box for staff to place their entries in. Give each employee three entry slips for the drawing. Place a stack of entry slips by the contest entry box. To enter, they write the name of an employee on the slip and write a one or two line comment about something good the employee has done. Then they sign their name. It is mandatory for each to fill out their three slips, but optional to fill out any more beyond that. The more slips they fill out, the more chances they have of winning the drawing. At a pre-announced time, hold the drawing and pull out one slip fr
