The famous quote by Martin Luther King Jr. talks something about passion in work .”If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well”
It is a cosmic rule that if there is a job in which a person is truly passionate in, and he has the resources to pursue, no matter what kind of job it is, that will make him stick to the job as he would no longer be seeing it as work. But in a changing world, with increased competition how many of us can afford to work for something that one is truly passionate about. The above quote hardly feels true because a street sweeper will be left to live in poverty throughout his life due to the economic disparity with the richer class.
It is also a fairly well known fact that productive employees are happy employees. So what drives some of them to productivity and some others to loss of happiness? In a mundane job, how can we ensure that productivity remains if not passion. This is when we need to take a look at the other factors that drive employee satisfaction. Edgar Schein’s eight career anchors details Technical/ functional, general managerial, autonomy/independence, security/stability, entrepreneurial creativity, service/dedication to a cause, pure challenge and lifestyle. For every person, the career anchor can be one or more of these eight listed factors. The employees whose career anchors are fulfilled in addition to the fact that the organization has its basic hygiene factors tend to stay.
What an organization needs to do here : In order to retain its employees and keep them satisfied, first and foremost an organization needs to understand what anchors each of its job roles generally cater to. The fact always remains that different job roles would be catering to different anchors. Next, there needs to be a check done through surveys to understand if job roles cater to the anchors that are in sync with that of the employees and how much they believe the role meets their expectations regarding their anchor. These are the first steps every organization needs towards retention and employee satisfaction. Not every organization can claim that all their employees work for passion. Sometimes there are more things to employee productivity.
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