A healthy company is made up of a pool of talented, diligent, dedicated and loyal employees. This pool must be well managed to take the organization to greater heights of success. Each employee’s personality is unique and is not static. It is dynamic and changes with the working experiences of the organization’s environment. It changes for the better in a healthy environment and for the worse in a toxic environment.
Factors that can contribute to a healthy company
Transparency and effective management
- Clear vision and mission, goals, and objectives and shared values;
- People and systems are in place;
- Clearly defined policies, regulations, rules;
- Roles clarity;
- Principles of management are strictly adhered;
- Resources are efficiently and optimally used;
- Unity of command;
- Problems and its underlying causes are easily identified and resolved.
Boss
- Boss is a human developer taking initiatives to develop subordinates;
- Boss communicates clear instructions and directions;
- Boss shares sufficient information with subordinates for the efficient performance of the job;
- Boss takes responsibilities for employee mistakes;
- Boss is decisive;
- Boss is objective in appraising employees’ performance;
- Boss delegates responsibility with the authority to act;
- Boss promotes job wellness;
- Boss constantly inspires and motivates subordinates;
- Boss is fair, ethical trustworthy and is a role model;
- Boss ties rewards and recognition to performance;
- Boss gives due credit to subordinate’s achievements.
Company Policies
- Win-win policies;
- Decentralization of power;
- Shared vision and values;
- Open door policy;
- Good fringe benefits;
- Cut down red tape.
Working Conditions
- Good working environment;
- Safe work conditions;
- Clean work environment;
- Sufficient resources;
- New technology;
- Well maintained tools and machinery .
Interpersonal Relationships
- Sense of belonging;
- Collaboration and cooperation among workers;
- Mutual trust and care;
- Work symbiotically and synergistically ;
- Mutual respect;
- Share success and failure stories;
- Sensitive to others’ needs and feelings.
Pay
- Pay slightly above the market rate.
The productive cycle of an organization is shown below
A healthy organization provides a conducive environment and its impact is upbeat. A conducive environment breeds happy, motivated, satisfied and committed employees. Good employees will become outstanding in their performance as their self-actualizing and positive traits are reinforced. Marginal and problem employees will change for the better as they experience pleasures in the working environment. The process of self-actualizing for employees will be on going. Productivity and quality of products and services would be greatly enhanced. Operational costs will dip and result in having a competitive edge with their competitors. Customer base expands as the organization penetrates into the competitors’ market. Profit escalates. The demand for products and services of the organization will soar. Company expands regionally and globally. More employees are required to meet the demands of the customers. The hiring of more new employees offers the outstanding employees good chances for upward mobility. The win-win policies would also improve the remuneration package in terms of better fringe benefits, bonus and facilities. The better reward system reinforces the self-actualizing and positive traits of the employees as they continue to change for the better in terms of their competencies and attitude. Resources will be efficiently used to achieve the bottom lines. Wastages, rejects and accidents would be minimized, productivity and quality shoot up and the cycle continues in a recurring manner.