Overview
There are many ways to make the workplace a healthier, happier and more productive environment.
This section provides information for employers on ways to enhance well-being, create healthier workplaces, successfully manage workplace mental health issues and related workplace legal issues.
What Makes A Workplace Great?
What makes a great workplace? Is it big pay and lots of benefits, or does it vary from workplace to workplace?
A few years ago, The Gallup Organization in Canada decided to initiate a multi-year research project to try and define what a great workplace is. The first task was to define what "great" was. They decided to go beyond merely “satisfied” and look at more than just external motivators. So they studied workplaces with a focus on four factors: employee retention, customer satisfaction, productivity and profitability. Based on this research, they have made a number of key discoveries, detailed below.
The first: There are no great companies. There are only great workgroups.
The second was a series of great work place characteristics:
- I know what I have to do.
- I have the materials/equipment I need to do my work right.
- I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.
- In the last 7 days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.
- My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.
- There is someone at work who encourages my development.
- At work, my opinions seem to count.
- What we do here is important to me.
- My fellow employees are committed to doing quality work.
- I have a best friend at work.
- In the last 6 months, someone at work has talked to me about my progress.
- This last year, I have had opportunities at work to learn and grow.
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