How Do I Get My Employees to Care About Their Jobs?

Exceptional employees contribute ideas, do more than their job requires, take responsibility for what goes right and what goes wrong and are motivated to do their best.

Here are seven things you can do to create a culture of commitment. These key suggestions stimulate employee confidence in their ability to make a difference. They need:

1. A clear vision on where the lab is heading. They need to buy into the vision that is clearly and often discussed by owners and managers.

2. Well-defined values that communicate what the lab stands for and lives by.

3. Positions, no matter at what level, in which the employees know they make a difference. They need to know their actions impact the success of the lab because they have ownership of their jobs. They need to know the importance of their jobs to the success of the business.

4. Positions that are clearly defined and include specific goals. Equally important is that everyone knows when the goals are achieved because they are measurable and not simply “pie in the sky.” The most committed employees have a hand in setting these goals and measurements of success.