Companies are constantly under the pressure of beating and outperforming competitors. Consequently business leaders and HR leaders have long sought ways to motivate their employees and teams to continuously drive for performance results. They have identified tools and processes to help them check the pulse of the organization, e.g. employee survey/poll, and they utilize the survey results to drive improvement measures aiming at stimulating sustainable performance.
Hertzbert (1966) and the human relations school stressed the idea that the happy employee was an efficient one, through which enhanced performance could be achieved. In 2001, a meta-analysis research of more than 300 companies covering approximately 55,000 people confirmed the high correlation between job satisfaction and work performance.
A positive organization is one that is able to develop and sustain a positive and creative organizational culture, which subsequently enables satisfaction and performance of its employees and teams.
A number of organizational practices have been implemented to develop a positive working culture. At the individual level, interventions such as job enrichment, strength-based approach,participatory decision-making, self-efficacy building, and other forms of personal development have been tested and successfully adopted by many. At group and organizational levels, team building, group interventions, resilience development, culture diagnosis and transformation, and change initiatives, if implemented well, have produced positive and significant results for many organizations.
At IDG, our seasoned consultants have extensive experience with application of positive psychology interventions at the workplace. We work with you to understand you and your organization’s unique needs, challenges, and circumstances to develop customized solutions to build and reinforce a positive and creative organizational culture.