The essence of employee motivation and effectiveness is the manner in which they are managed. Your management success is judged by your skill and knowledge in recognizing and assessing issues that concern employees and by your ability to resolve these concerns with employee help and satisfaction. Quality of Work Life Getting high quality job performance from your employees depends on giving employees opportunities for their personal growth, achievement, responsibility, recognition, and reward. The basis of all job enhancement efforts is your recognition of employees' desire to do good work, to assume responsibility, to achieve and to succeed. The quality of work life technique is to involve your employees by sharing the management responsibility and authority with them - the workers who do the job.
Workers are productive with fair pay tied to performance.
Ironically, not all employee motivation and productivity problems are solved by pay raises and promotions. The tailoring of benefits to satisfy specific needs is part of the quality of work life technique. By making a special effort to satisfy individual employee needs, you reinforce the motivational value of the flexible benefit. For example, you can reduce unwanted employee turnover and related recruiting, hiring, and training costs by shifting these costs from developing new employees to keeping experienced employees. At the same time you have improved the worker's skills and shown recognition of the worker's value and aspiration.