Making Employees Productive
January 24th, 2007 by 
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Loading ...As an employer, I had always thought, and this myth has always been peddled, that a company should focus on making the employee happy, then he will work hard and be productive.
This is a persistent myth, and I think it is NOT true. After years of working with people convinces me that what the company should primarily focus on is to make the employee useful and productive. When he is productive, and feels he is doing something worthwhile, and contributing to his team or company, he will be fulfilled AND happy.
A happy employee is just well, happy. But just because you make him happy, don’t expect that he will be productive!
If youa re an employee,I can also tell you that looking for happiness in a job is not going to work. and yes, few people are completely happy with their job. I think they are looking for the wrong things. What you should look for in a job is where you can be useful, productive and can contribute. I believe in all of us, there is an innate sense of self worth that finds fulfillment in being able to give in that community.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Hi Wilson. Didn’t know you had a site until an office colleague called my attention to it. And so here am I. My friend is right, you have a terrific place here. You’re doing well for the entrepreneurship/self-employment advocacy movement. I have been monitoring your progress, your successes (sort of) .. e.g. your winning the ernst young entrepreneur of the year award for your category. Keep it up.
I put up my own site too … its really an experimental one which i do edgewise .. it’s weeks old so it looks very amateurish … hope it will grow out and mature too. It is
something i might take up in earnest at retirement if it turns out to be worhtwhile.
Will come back and read some more. All best.
- myrna co
January 25th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Quite good but need to inform by incentives people that really contribute to the company not only a moral boast which they gain by themselves knowing they done good for the firm. . What I mean is, pockets needed some fill.
Thanks
January 26th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Dear Cesar,
Yes, I understand. Of course, I am not saying we should not keep people happy. but rather I was just trying to point out that if companies expect people will work hard just because they are happy, it won’t do it.
An unhappy worker will be not productive and motivated, but it does not automatically mean a happy worker is automatically a hard worker that wants to do his best.