Business: Integrity in Management

Integrity in Management

Written by Arthur Cooper

Integrity in Management By Arthur Cooper (c) Copyright 2003

If you want to motivate your team you must demonstrate integrity.

There is no alternative.

You may be able to get by without it for a while. You may be able to get temporary results from your team by threats or rewards alone, or by playing off one member against another, or by shifting blame onto others, but it won’t last.

Sooner or later you will reap what you sow and you will get what is coming. And what is coming in this case is poor work output from a despondent and demotivated staff, a high stress level for you as you fight against repparttar odds, and an increasing number of complaints from your own superiors at repparttar 105087 declining performance.

Why make your life difficult? Why do it repparttar 105088 hard way when there is an easier way?

Act with integrity towards your team and your life will be easier. Why? Because it is human nature to react towards someone according to how they act toward you. If you treat someone in a decent and sympathetic way they will be more inclined to treat you that way too. If you treat them badly they will treat you badly.

If you show yourself to be indifferent to your team’s wellbeing they are not likely to care much for what you feel. If you show yourself to be dishonest in your dealings with them they will not be inclined to be honest with you. If you prove to be unreliable and untrustworthy they will very probably become unreliable too.

Good Communicators Create Successful Companies

Written by Mike Burstein

It's always interesting to study repparttar

internal and external communication policies and procedures of small and medium size businesses. Companies that cultivate open and honest communications with employees and customers inevitably are highly successful in their marketplace.

Many entrepreneurs lack repparttar 105086 requisite skills necessary to communicate clearly with their staff and customers. Once an entrepreneur has grown his company to repparttar 105087 size that a clearly defined organization is necessary to support repparttar 105088 company functions, it becomes mandatory that a professional manager with repparttar 105089 essential communication and management skills be hired.

Companies that clearly communicate repparttar 105090 company's goals, from repparttar 105091 top down, always stand out from their competition. However, open communication needs to be a two way street since repparttar 105092 input of repparttar 105093 employees on repparttar 105094 front lines will convey opportunities to improve and grow repparttar 105095 company.

Additionally, employees who feel that their input is actually listened to and acted upon by upper management will be less apt to become dissatisfied with their job. Since employee retention is problematic in most industries, repparttar 105096 successful company will be open to employees' suggestions and complaints.

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