e organization plays a very large role in motivation and morale employees need to know that when they come to work everyday they won’t have several different tasks thrown at them throughout the day. This reflects totally as to how the individual reacts towards the organization. We combat this “ Hey, you!” effect in our organization with a couple of methods. First, our employees receive schedules from their team leaders at the beginning of each week. These schedules cannot predict out of the blue emergencies of course, but the employees at least have a sense of stability. Second, we give the employee liberty as to how they plan and organize their day or week according to the most important tasks, which are established by the team leader.Now those team leaders I mentioned are obviously in charge of teams. We firmly believe in the team concept to accomplish more here in our company. These teams are grouped in accordance with the skills of the employees. We aren’t going to put a marketing team in design, for example. How does our structure affect motivation and morale? Through time we have tired many different methods to motivate our employees. The methods that our employees most favored were the team concept due to the bonding between members that were involved. We maintain a high level of motivation and morale because of the team concept and once a week the teams set aside “fun time”, whether it be a movie or bowling, as long as they have time to bond. 130 We believe we also have very good incentives to keep our employees happy and loyal. Some of our incentives were even instilled by the employees themselves. We have a very good profit-sharing plan that allows an employee to choose which amount they want to invest out of their check. Up to a certain amount the company will match whatever the employee decides to invest in the company. To get to some of the more personal incentives we also...
