(Solved Homework): Whose responsibility is job satisfaction? Employer? Employee? Everyone? No one?…

Job satisfaction is very important for any employee. It plays important role in engaging the employees to work efficiently and effectively. If the employees are satisfied with their job, they will exhibit high level of performance at work. Employees will be ready to go extra mile to meet and exceed the target. This high level of performance will contribute towards meeting the goals and objectives of the organization.

It is very important for the managers to come up with different strategies to motivate an employee. These include:-

• Rewards and recognitions
• Positive and friendly working environment
• Increasing employee engagement
• Providing training and development programs to enhance their skills
• Act fairly and create a environment of trust
• Implementing incentives program

Employer plays important role is in providing job satisfaction to employees. A positive workforce culture helps in increasing productivity, job satisfaction to employees and customer satisfaction. It is very important to create a positive culture at workplace.

• The vision statement of the company should be clear in which can lead to a positive work culture by creating strategies for the betterment of the workplace.
• Positive attitude of the applicants should be considered while hiring.
• Creating a two-way communication system and employees engagement.
• Keeping the employees informed about the daily operations of the company which can help them to stay connected with the company.
• Rewards and recognition is very important to create a positive environment.

It is important for managers to focus on motivating their employees above and beyond the paychecks because:-

• Trust is very important in motivating employees to work collaboratively in order to meet the goal. It is very important for the managers to build trust vertically and horizontally. People like to stay and work in an environment where they can trust the colleagues and trust the leader.
• It increase employees’ commitment towards the organization.
• Employees loyalty towards the organization make them to perform better and provide exceptional customer service.
• Motivated employees will behave in acceptable manner and work as per the organization values and culture.
• Motivated employees work collaboratively and the conflict situations are resolved effectively.
• Motivated employees give highest level of performance and helps in creating a high performance team.

Thus, employer should focus more on motivating employees so that they can work collaboratively to achieve the organizational goal.