It seems intuitively logical that happy and satisfied workers are the productive workers.
Lot of companies spend serious amount of money to improve or increase the satisfaction level of the employees by introducing flexible working hours, onsite child care facilitation, retirement plans, friendly working environment , working from home etc.Organizational management expect a set of satisfies work force by attending to the above mentioned tasks.But they do not get exactly what they want but rather they experience high turn over and low productivity or productivity failures.
The truth is that productivity causes satisfaction than the other way round.
A careful review of evidence finds a correlation of only about +0.41 between satisfaction and productivity. (Robbins, Stephen, The truth about managing people ..And Nothing But the Truth)
Productivity leads to satisfaction.If you do a good job and feel you are using you core skills you have, if you feel that you are an important resource to the company, if you feel that the organization rewards your productivity, if the organization does a good pay to the work you do, you are probably satisfies and happy.Personnel goals should always be encourages and satisfies whilst the organization achieves its goals.
When an employee starts to realize that she/he is a valuable individual to the organization and not just a resource whom can be replaces by another easily and when she/he realize that the are doing what they are good at or when they realize that they are practicing what they like, naturally the enthusiasm gets increased and starts to do more and more good amount of work or productive amount of work.It generate quality output to satisfy them and the productivity naturally gets increased.
As managers what is expected is not finding ways to improve the satisfaction of the employees rather help them to be productive in the work they do.Introduce new tools, effective training sessions, improve job design and most importantly remove all barriers which stops them doing their best.
So improve productivity for a satisfied work force.
