Employee motivation: Listening to employees' ideas can boost a business, expert says

Date: 08/08/2011

Boost employee motivation by taking on board staff ideas, businesses have been advised.

Alex Evans, editorial director and co-chair of the Orange National Business Awards, says that championing workers' ideas can help to engage with staff and transform a company.

"Some of the best examples of really big businesses demonstrating excellence is where senior management and CEOs have championed certain innovations [within] the business, to make them more visible," he said,

"You get this sense of champions within the business, with people being recognised very quickly by people who probably sit quite far away from them."

He also pointed out that sometimes it's the smaller businesses that connect with employees better.

"It's tougher for big businesses to do it, but the really big ones are doing it," he said.

Research conducted by the University of Birmingham showed recently that family business foster the best employee motivation and relations.

Posted by Elizabeth Mewes

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