Work environment is an important element to increase the satisfaction level of employees towards their jobs. Jain and Kaur (2014) stated that “all the aspects of work environment are correspondingly significant or indeed appropriate when considered job satisfaction and also affects the welfare of employees” (p. 2). Thus, it is obvious that a favorable work environment is not merely affects the employees’ performance in an organization, but also compensation and benefits to employees and job satisfaction of employees in the organization. In general, there are three types of work environment: work-life balance, rewards and recognition and open communication that lead to job satisfaction of employees (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
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In the simple word, it is defined as the way of seeking the balancing between work role and personal role. People seek for balance in their life to satisfy their needs and create a healthy and productive life which include work, play and love (Kofodimos, 1993). Besides that, there are three components included in work family balance: time balance, involvement balance, and satisfaction balance. When an employee is able to achieve the sense of balance, it will increase their job satisfaction in organization. The reverse is true. If people fail to achieve the balancing, work-life conflict will occurs in organization. Work-life conflict is defined as the blurring line between work life and personal life (Robbins and Judge, 2009). In order to solve the problem, organization needs to find out the measures to reduce the conflict. Mostly, the companies take actions to change the work culture. For example, they try to create a family friendly workplace by launching program or policy such as on-site child care, flextime, jobs sharing, telecommuting and part time employment. Work-life …show more content…
Unlike work-life balance and rewards and recognition, open communication is about the interactions between people in the work environment. Robbins and Judge (2008) defined communication as the process where right message is transferred and understood by the receiver from the sender. Communication can be sub-divided into two types which are open communication and closed communication. Open communication is different from closed communication where it allows the parties to share their ideas and contribute to the communication (McMahon, 2013). Open communication is also known as two-way communication. When message is transmitted from the sender, feedback is permitted to voice out from the receiver. It does not limit on the chain of command in organization. Downward communication refers to the direction of information from top management to employees while upward communication is the flow of information from employees to top management (Johns & Saks, 2011). Both require open communication to achieve effective communication in the work environment. For example, management team gives instruction to employees in order to complete tasks, the employees should respond to the instruction for task clarification. Open communication is encouraged in the work environment to avoid misunderstanding and enhance the relationship between employees in the organization. Further, the existence of open
A healthy flow of upward and downward communication ensures that the communications between managers and employees is complete. For example, in 2010, Kroger surveyed over 200 thousand employees in its “Associate First Tracker survey” and found the feedback both invaluable and “humbling.” Kroger then communicates the findings with their employees who participated which will then generate a new dialog in regard to what the next steps should be (Orgel, 2010). The final channel of communication is the use of horizontal communications between coworkers. This can...
Working in today’s society has changed in the last few decades. The economy and technology are the main reasons for this change. The type of job and environment where one works has also changed. The fact that many people work from home via the internet has drastically changed the workforce and the environment surrounding it. With this change have come new demands, expectations, and opportunities for employers. Everyone deals with these demands differently, affecting the employee’s quality of life and job satisfaction. Though the job and office types and locations have changed over the years the need for job satisfaction has not. In today’s economy the job is not as stable as it used to be. One must be prepared for changes in the future.
Communication is an integral part of working in the business environment. Individuals communicate various pieces of information to internal and external business stakeholders.The design of an organization should provide for communication in four in distinct directions: downward, upward, horizontal, and diagonal. But we have only discuss about downward communication and upward communication, where downward communication is more prevalent than upward communication in organization. Communication can flow vertically or laterally. The vertical dimension can be further divided into downward and upward direction. Downward communication is more prevalent because in this type of communication, we have to give orders and instructions to our sub-ordinates. So we have to explain each and every step that is going to help in work. But in upward communication they sub-ordinates do not have to give instructions their head.
The notion of work-life balance has evolved greatly becoming ambiguous over time, along with the struggle of achieving it. It is important to realize that work-life balance can mean different things to different people. It can change and mean different things at various points in people’s careers. Work-life balance is the relative importance of work and personal life to a particular individual (work-life Balance, 2016) . With my own literal interpretation of the meaning behind this term, work-life balance is basically trying to find an equal level of work outside life. It is about having a perfectly-optimal career along with a perfectly-optimal life. But with close introspection you come to realize that work
This research is important in finding out key facts in the workplace that can guide the way we establish policies, conduct business, and govern ourselves within organizations. In general, research is about discovery. Throughout this research paper, I will discuss through analytical research methods the effects of cleanliness, happiness, and satisfaction on productivity in the workplace.
Describe and explain how this factor can potentially have a positive influence on workplace relationships
Communication which flows from the superiors to subordinates is known as downward communication means a process of starting communication process from upper level to lower level. Group leaders and managers use it to assign goal, provide jod instruction, explain policies and offer other feedback about performance. Managers can do this in various ways such as via speeches, messages in newsletter, e-mails, leaflets, bulletin boards, memos and others. When the managers of the organization assign goals to their employees, they are using downward communication. The downward communication occurs when information and messages flow down through an organization's formal chain of command or hierarchical structure. In other words, messages and orders start at the upper levels of the organizational hierarchy and move down toward the bottom levels. Responses to downward communications move up along the same path.In an organization structure, the superiors utilize their abilities to attain the desired targets which mean that they may be engaged in issuing commands, directions and policy directives to the persons working under them at lower levels. When engaging in downward communication, managers must explain the reason why a decision was made. One study found employees were twice as likely to be committed to changes when the reasons behind them were fully explained. Although this may seem like common sense, many managers feel they are too busy to explain things or that explanations will “open up a big can of worms.” Downward communication is to provide relevant information, orders, instruction to subordinates. Downward communication is called as instruction type communication system.
There have been various questions that have been asked concerning how people can balance their family lives and work life. Some researchers decided to do a research which showed that many people are not able to balance their family and work life. This is because they do not know how to do it (Fine-Davis, 2005). There is always too much pressure on one side of their life which leads to some of them ignoring one part of it. The other part gets too much attention. This then leads to an imbalance in the family life and work life. This has been the main problem that many employees are facing. They have to do it because when one side is neglected, it becomes relay difficult to make up f...
to the environment and social life. There are different types of stress and its stressors we face in our daily lives. A huge source of stress comes from the workplace. It is caused by work and workload. Many employees become victim of the stress in the workplace both physically and mentally. This is underlying the workplace stress. This essay will discuss internal and external stress.
Positive organizational behavior is a effective leader in the workplace, because you set up a team strength, and work with partners to achieve goals. Their success brought confidence for the workplace.
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in measuring satisfaction among employees in organization. Work environment is complex mainly due to its structure which involves two or more parties. It is important for employers and organization to know if their employees are satisfied with their job as it may directly influence of their performance and in turn, the performance of the organization. Satisfaction could mean different things to different individuals. Many people may agree that satisfaction is determined when their expectations are met and may feel disappointed when they are not.
To get a greater cost-effectiveness and efficiency is the benefits for business in promoting work-life balance. The organizations have the talent to attract a higher level of skills. This is because the business is able to attract and retain a skilled and more various workforces. Besides that, the organizations had reduced in recruitment costs and have better job satisfaction and staff confidence. Many employers found that a better work-life balance has a positive effect on staff retention and on employee relationships, incentive and commitment. Work-life balance help the organizations increase customer satisfaction and devotion. The organizations will also increase staff efficienc...
A study by University of East London shows that the concept of communication is immeasurable in modern management, and it seeks to meet clear understanding between manager and all the employees. It explains that employee communication is the exchange and clear provision of information, commands and directions between management and employees. And it makes the organization to work properly and employees to be well aware about their responsibilities and duties. (University of East London, 2009)
The next kind of communication I would like to cover is upward communication. This is when employees send a message threw the chain of command, to the managers. This type of communication is very good for employees because they feel they are being noticed in the organization. Managers also benefit from this because they learn more about the organization.
According to the article written by Office Space Planners there are 5 key items that would make your office ideal. The 5 key components to consider are the comfort of the office to your clientele and employees, the efficiency of the office, the ability to have fast and direct communication inside and outside of your office, the space encourages productivity from the staff and the effectiveness of the office for your clients and also to the community you are serving. I am going to use these 5 key points to serve as a guide for the construction of my ideal and yet affordable office that keeps Rebecca’s image in mind.