HOW CAN HR TEAMS USE COMMUNICATION TO IMPROVE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT..?
Organization must create an work environment that encourages employees about their work. If the company wants high levels of involvement, motivation, trust ,commitment and empowerment should invest their efforts in improving employee communication. Indeed this is very important to enhance the level of employee engagement to the organization.
When we improve employee engagement, performance will improve gradually and then increase own values.
HR teams should take proper steps to make sure better employee engagement and effective communication in the organization and they need to be focused some key drivers to enhance employee engagement.
- Develop clear internal lines of communication and execute the strategy effectively within the company.
- Enable and promote better organization transparency through communication.
- Effective & Strategical business plan and properly communicate every member of the team.
- Encourage internal communication within the company among employees.
- Offer a good recognition in the organization considering the efforts made by employees on various grounds and reward them well.
- Use a workforce communication platform to integrate communication channels (intranet, email, mobile app, etc.) to target, personalize, and measure internal communications. This will help the organization to understand how best to communicate with your employees on the channel of their choice, and will vastly improve employee engagement.
GREAT INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS CAN BOOST EMPLOYEE
ENGAGEMENT
Internal communications have a considerable impact on employee
engagement. However some of companies don’t
have a solid Long Term Internal Communication Strategy. Always effective internal communication is totally effect to improving employee engagement.
Proactive Communication Keeps Everyone in the Loop
- Obtaining information about the organization from externally it would be a critical situation to the organization as ell as employees.
- To keep the employees engaged in the organization, need to adapt with internal communications to their expectations.
Internal Communications Drive Employee Productivity
- Internal Communications Drive Effective internal communication helps employees to quickly find their job scope where necessary. It reduces inconvenience and increases loyalty, because everyone wants to be able to do their jobs successfully and efficiently.
- Poor internal communications have a huge impact on employees’ productivity and their ability to meet their targets.
- When employees feel like they are wasting time on unnecessary work, they feel disappointed and are less likely to feel engaged with the organization as a whole
Two-Way Communications Empower Employees
How can organization engage their employees if
they don’t actually communicate with employees?
- Internal communication is not only the sharing information among the employees. but also having a good understanding of employees’ expectations.
- Employees want to be listened to, they are willing to have opportunities to implement new projects that impact business’s bottom line. They want to continuously innovate and develop new skills. Simply the want to be empowered.
- Effective employee communications allows employees to use their energies for the organization with a tea spirit rather than being loneliness and isolation in the workplace.
- With instant and transparent communication, Organization helps their remote workers keep up with the organization and then they employees feel connected to the business.
Internal Communications Make Work More Fun
- Employee engagement is not only about transparent and two-way communications, it’s also about making work a bit fun.
- Employees spend eight hours or more a day at the office so HR team to be ensured that make work a bit more fun with a relaxation in order to not to be a stress to the employee
References :
01.
Epitome of engaging employees by Dr.A S Dharmasiri (2010)
Available at :
https://apbsrilanka.com/wp content/uploads/2021/01/2010_22nd_conv_a_7_Dr_Ajantha_Dharmasiri.pdf
02.
How Your Internal Communications Can Boost Employee (2019)
Available at :
https://blog.smarp.com/how-your-internal-communications-can-boost-employee-engagement-at-your-workplace
The communication gap in the workplace is the misinterpretation of information or the complete lack of communication within the company. Such a phenomenon can occur between employers and employees or between employees of different ranks. according to my experience communication gaps are created by employees' fear for higher rank, misunderstanding of colleagues, wrong attitude and wrong body language, Inappropriate timing, etc... To prevent issues generate from communication gaps can solve using hr concepts. for that, we should do recognize the problem, implement the solution and follow up.
ReplyDelete“having an effective internal communication in place is the key to improving employee engagement. A better focus on listening and continuous listening is required. Employees' thoughts and suggestions matter and listening to them can be beneficial to the organization in many different ways”.
ReplyDeleteCommunication plays major role in employee engagement in the organization. Effective communication in the workplace is key to establishing strong relationships and getting important projects done. According to a Watson Wyatt study, companies that communicate the most effectively are 50% more likely to report low turnover levels compared with the industry average. And Of course, everyone struggles with communication from time to time, which can lead to misunderstandings and frustrations. Therefore, HR should implement a strategic process to communicate in order to improve employee engagement.
ReplyDeleteEmployee engagement is one of the key factors of a successful organization. So HR Teams trying to improve this employee engagement by implementing few concepts.
ReplyDeleteAs you mentioned develop clear internal communication lines, enable organizational transparency through communication, identify good communicators and reward them and other factors are also important.
The HR manager and HR department need to highly engage in implementing better communication channels inside the organization to overcome the lack of engagement among employees.
Proper employer to employee communication and vice versa is a much needed component that every organization should posses. But most instances there is a hierarchy or protocol to follow specially in employee aspect. Even though we have different platforms like telephones, emails conferences or grievance handling I believe this should be further in line with practical scenarios of the industry.
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