Why Employees are Demotivated - "Self Experience"

Are you Demotivating Your Employees?

I am writing about this topic because many times a talented employee is demotivated in company due to many reasons. It’s my own experience. After working long time in an organization it is felt that, you are being demotivated. Demotivation comes from many ways. Actually these days I’m also suffering from it, so thought to explain it deeply. Why? Employees get demotivated. When I started working in this Education organization as a Manager it was much excitement in me regarding my work, my office, all tasks given by my Managing Director. He used say “Always Keep Excitement in life”. When you stopped being excited and keep starting new works, you will loss all current power. And if you are continue working on new projects your power increases 100 times more. If anyone asks to me, how was I inspired with him? Actually I analyzed his working style. He is a Managing Director but works most in the company. Never take rest eve. Once I thought, Being MD of the company he is not taking rest then why should I?. From the day I started working day and night. You can’t believe. I wake up at 5 O’clock be ready after 6 AM, and reach my office at 7 AM. Work continuously, don’t care about the lunch, Its 2 O’clock, 3O’clock. By Force my MD and one Mam never seen like her say to take lunch. I had had no lunch with me. Because I get up at 6 and come at 7. They offer me their lunch. When again I start working then it is 7 o’clock of evening. Completed 12 hours. Eyes are red now. Headache is smiling on me. Summer vacation is saying to drink cool water, AC outside was calling to sit under it. My obsession was on 7^th sky. I had read anywhere that if you have obsession in your life then your lazy life becomes exciting.

But working from morning till night can’t bring obsession in your life. How can obsession come in your life? Actually before few days I was wondering here there but not working seriously anywhere. Here I had some incident in my life that’s why I have started working seriously. It became my habit. My MD used to motivate me doing new things started many projects. I was living his life. Fulfilling his dream. Think from a side then I find that I was in benefit here, but from one side I see then find that I was destroying my life’s precious moment to fulfill other’s dream. I was losing my existence. If I had worked for me adding my ambition with strong obsession, how creative my world would be. Really it doesn’t matter that how I spent my life and for whom. I learnt much from this experience. Even I was learning daily. But misfortunately DEMOTIVATION came in this story.

Demotivation started from here, our employees increased here. I told many time to make good rule regulation and a management. He Denied. He started taking decision alone. He started opening his personal life matter in office. “Abuse”, “Slap” all became common for him and his beloved. I had worked hard to increase no. of employees in low salary. Watching condition of organization, each of them started leaving office. They were so laborious, working here in low salary. Because I thought them daily related to their profile in Digital marketing. They were availing benefits. Now, when they were experienced 6 months expected for salary increment. But my MD Sir told to fire them; we can’t give them more salary. I told them to search job, they got better job. They are happy but we are not. Because they were experienced, they were motivated here in our company environment, having all knowledge of organization. They were lack of motivation only. They left because they were demotivated.

Losing the command on your organization

The most effective MD or Managers are the ones who have a finger on the pulse of the office at all times. Gossip often flies on facts that are poorly understood. Whether fact or fiction, truth or speculation, they can serve as big sources of distraction for employees. A good leader heads these issues out of the office. They don’t bring their personal life in the office. Make sure you cultivate honest relationships with a few key employees at different levels. If you start ignoring key people of the company, he will also start hating you. So it’s better that rely on them to let you know – without attribution to individual employees, of course – what issues are gathering steam. Address them honestly, publicly and quickly. And make sure you have a true open-door policy where you’ll willingly answer questions in a one-on-one setting.

Failing to express thankfulness:

Being an employee, I think and want to be recognized for my hard work. It’s one of the most fundamental tenets of leadership. While I found here at last ignoring employee progress was a huge mistake. It costs nothing but the time it takes to acknowledge that person. When an employee feels unappreciated, he or she loses the desire to push boundaries and working hard for the company. If formality isn't your thing, a genuine compliment every now and then goes a long way toward boosting employee motivation. He failed doing it.

Reading heart and mind of employee:

The most effective Directors or Manager of the company should be typically the ones who bring a personal touch to their approach with employees. Take the time to get to know your managers and their team. People tend to work much harder when they see you care and understand their impact on the team. Perhaps more importantly, remember that people are not identical - individual employees have individual motivations. When you invest the time to learn more about the people who work with and for you, it’s easier to identify what makes them tick and how you can help them realize their potential.

A Managing Director or manager of organization should manage these three points written above. I know that am not much experienced to say it but, so far as my experience and feeling concerned. We must care about it. Now analyzing these all thing, I must say, I am not demotivated my position on that organization was being demotivated only. Whenever I start working again for any organization. My energy will be more that flowing here. I will start hammering on my task like stones. Not now but sure within a short while I will hunt my ambition.

BY: Gaurav Dubey