Signs Your Management Cares About Employees
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Management treats you like a valuable professional who has meaningful insights to offer. -
Job Status
Managers constantly conveys how important your role is and how it contributes to organizational strategies. -
Learning Opportunity
Management finds new, interesting ways to incorporate vocational training into the corporate culture. -
Pass It On
Managers encourage employees to share knowledge, and they happily pass along what they know. -
Teachable Moment
Managers know they can probably learn as much from workers as workers can learn from them, so they pay attention to employee input. -
Forward-Thinking
To avoid panic, management considers the "what's next?" factor in tasks, projects and deadlines, so everyone has time to plan ahead. -
Lineup Card
Managers understand that it's good for both their teams and the organization to carefully match strengths and interests to assignments. -
Equitable Arrangement
Management doesn't just pay lip service work-life balance initiatives. They enforce them. -
High Profile
Managers take part in community events to raise the company's profile as a contributor to the greater good. -
Moral Foundation
If a decision comes down to getting a big payoff but possibly taking part in unethical behavior, management says "No!"
The numbers are troubling: A mere 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup. Of the other 87 percent, 63 percent are not engaged (they lack motivation and are fairly apathetic), and 24 percent are actively disengaged (they're unhappy, unproductive and likely to spread their negative feelings to colleagues). One of the best ways for managers to reverse those findings is to demonstrate that they care about their employees' welfare. But that requires going far beyond simply asking, "How are you today?" and organizing office birthday parties. Instead, an organization must cultivate a culture of empathy at all levels. Managers should look for ways to enhance their staff members' professional development, job satisfaction and work-life balance. They have to know how to successfully pursue business challenges without overloading their teams with work and stress, while also discouraging shortcuts that could lead to questionable ethical practices. The following list of "signs that managers care" was adapted primarily from the Center for Companies That Care, along with a variety of other online sources.