Turnover among team members forces the team to retreat to a previous stage of development followed by rebuilding. Sometimes the retreat is all the way back to the forming stage. Clearly, a continuous rebuilding of the team negatively affects longer term employees. Thus, employee satisfaction and employee turnover are closely related. Too often, the impact of turnover on co-workers is ignored.
Employees do care what happens to their valued co-workers.
Employers can improve commitment to team building by rewarding employees for their contributions to team efforts. Rewarding only individual efforts sends a strong signal to employees that the business is a collection of individuals rather than a team. Competing with co-workers replaces cooperation. Start by asking how the milking team is doing or how the crops team is doing . Then ask how individuals within these teams are doing.