Breaking your backlog
Article Abstract:
Managers can encourage their employees to reduce accumulated work using specific techniques. These employee motivation techniques include asking employees to help determine the cause of the backlog, assigning workload fairly, discussing which tasks have to be done first and creating short-term objectives and recording decrease in backlogs. Additional techniques include informing employees of their progress in backlog reduction, giving financial rewards and other incentives, supplying needed equipment and materials, telling employees what to expect on future workload and communicating with divisions affected by the backlog.
Publication Name: Small Business Reports
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0164-5382
Year: 1992
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Management sins
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Personnel management is a strategic tool for increasing workforce productivity. Paying due attention to employees shows managerial concern and harnesses alternate input for management decisions. The proper dissemination of orders and memos should be considered to minimize errors and miscommunications that could prove costly to the business. Finally, it is important to show that rules are consistently and fairly applied to all.
Publication Name: Small Business Reports
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0164-5382
Year: 1992
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Ready and able
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Disabled employees should be assisted by management to improve employee return time as well as reduce claims and other operations losses. Pres Manager Ted Haslam of Travelers Managed Disability Services of Atlanta, GA, recommends that companies give proper attention to employee disability claims instead of countering them. Such an approach improves personnel morale and increases company efficiency.
Publication Name: Small Business Reports
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0164-5382
Year: 1992
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