People provide the ideas, the skills and the energy which makes the difference between a business winner and a loser. The key to efficient use of your employee resource is to get the best, not just the most, from each person.
Successful businesses generate an atmosphere of co-operation and trust with their employees.
Each person should feel welcome to put forward new ideas or suggestions for improving the business. Each feels respected for the particular skills that he or she brings to the business, but acknowledges that the employer makes the final decisions. The results of this approach, often called team spirit or loyalty, are a high level of initiative, high productivity, low absenteesim and staff turnover, high morale, good communications and a high level of co-operation between management and employees. The business owner should take an interest in each employee, help or advise where appropriate, and make the employee aware that he or she is a productive part of the business. The employee in return devotes more energy to the workplace.