Job Burn Out!

It is all too often of a response of a company losing money to cut back on employee's instead of increasing sales. Developing new marketing campaigns to increase sales can be another alternative.

Many companies chose to lay-off one-fifth to one-fourth of its staff as an alternative to increasing their marketing efforts to turn a profit. We will have to work with it. I don't remember where I heard this from, but the remaining employee's will need to learn to "Work Smart, Not Hard". Become more efficient with their tasks and learn to prioritize they work that they do have. (Rosenberg McKay, 2006)

The company will need to develop a list of all the tasks that needs to be completed on a daily, weekly and monthly and even yearly basis. Decide what is important and what tasks have become unnecessary. By streamlining people's job functions and defining everyone's new job descriptions we can relive some of the stress that was developed from those remaining taking on more work. This will increase morale though everyone knowing what is expected from them at work.

I would also recommended some marketing strategies to increase the amount of rented units and develop a plan with the current employees to bring back some of the employees that did get laid-off. With increases in profits though increased rentals there should be enough money in the budget to bring back some of the needed employees to get all the work done. Make an action plan and be sure to include all employees. Maybe not all the employee's that were laid-off deserve to have his or her jobs back, get feedback from the current employee's. This should also help increase morale though out the office.

As Managers we can focus on process interventions and management styles to increase employee's morale.

What are the types of process interventions?

How can they aid an Organization Development Consultant to help functional groups to become more effective?

How can these Process Skills aid teams and employees in solving their own problems?