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Motivation and Leadership in Business
Employees with Children are the Best Workforce
Employers believe that employees focus less on their jobs, once they become parents. This impression mostly comes from the fact that these workers start requiring maternity leaves, leaves for school activities with their children and other family matters. Employers end up choosing to employ young workers with no children or families. An American firm, Great Place to Work, recently surveyed 400,000 employees at companies in the US and found out that this impression was not true. The survey conducted revealed that parents display more signs of dedication to their places of work, as compared to their co-workers without kids. The only thing that changes for parents is the demand for their time, as they have to give their families and work equal attention and time.
There are ways to ensure parents and nursing mothers remain as productive as their co-workers without children. Some of these ways include ensuring that information reaches them effectively, as most of them leave work early to have enough time to spend with their families, setting up nurseries to encourage nursing mothers to come with their children to work, ensuring insurance offered covers maternity charges and constructing day-cares and schools for employees’ children. Some companies even offer holiday trips for employees who maintain high output. These trips include the families of the involved employees, encouraging hard work and work consistency.
Employers are encouraged to motivate their employees to achieve their maximum output and boost employee loyalty. Large companies such as David Weekley Homes have shown extreme dedication to their employees by rewarding them with scholarship funds, based on tenure, as well as offering paid professional internship programs for their children. Employers ought to emulate such companies, as employees’ motivation directly affects output, and in the long run, company profits. Employers should not fire nursing mothers because they require leaves to cater for their families. Instead, they should find ways to motivate them and ensure that their working schedules avail them of time for both adequate working and spending time with their families.
