Are you quick to acknowledge your
subordinate’s achievement? For example, good work performance or exceptional
sales achievement. Do you immediately compliment such positive behaviors? Or
you don’t mind it simply because you see it as ordinary and without meaning?
Words or actions that acknowledge a
positive behavior fulfills our need to have a place in an organization. In
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, this is number three in the hierarchy
which is the need to belong. When an employee feels that his/her need to belong
in an organization is fulfilled. He/she would naturally be motivated to work
hard or work even harder.
Human as we are, we feel good when we are
recognized or complimented. For example, remember when you were still studying?
And when your professor complimented you for correctly answering his question
during recitation? How did you feel during that moment? You felt good and you
were raring for another session of class recitation. Right? What influenced
your positive behavior? It’s the acknowledgment and recognition that was given
to you.
In the same vein, acknowledging or
complimenting your subordinate’s achievement no matter how small is motivating
as well. Therefore, we must not be stingy in giving well deserved compliment
and acknowledgment for a job well done. This is for the reason that this gives
an employee a purpose and meaning in his existence in the organization. and it
fulfills the number three hierarchical need under Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of
needs which is the need to belong.
Hence, we should be quick to acknowledge
positive achievements and behaviors and we should do it as often as the
opportunity gives us to do so. Try it and see for yourself the motivation that
it will give your subordinates. And the
positive impact that it will create in your image. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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