Work Environment and People Development

We must place great importance on the personal lives and character of our employees


A healthy work environment creates a good foundation that permits people to work effectively, develop themselves, and achieve their aspirations. The good manager places strong emphasis on creating a good work environment.

Is the daily focus on real work or on psycho-politics? Which gets more attention office politics and employee feuds or things such as marketing, planing,and production. Regardless of the goals, the problem is all organizations are social systems plagued with all the imperfections associated with human beings. While people set out to cooperate as a team moving toward the corporate goals, people want to control their own destiny and people have problems. These problems do more to squelch real work than anything else in the work environment.


Anxiety is one of these human imperfections. Anxiety is that awful feeling in the pit of our stomach when uncertainty reigns and the fear of the future abounds. People don't tolerate anxiety well. Good managers work quickly to resolve this problem.


The condition of ones self-esteem is also powerfully at work. It can be a stabilizer or your emotional buzz-saw. We must destroy the age old myth - I can build myself up by tearing him down.


The ever present "personal problem" also greatly affects how we work. One can only focus on so many things. Which problem do you think is at the top of the priority list, how to increase production or ones personal problem? We must place great importance on the personal lives and character of our employees and certainly potential employees.


The manager must work hard in this area. We must be sensitive. The goal is to drive real work while diminishing political aspirations, occupational sparring and relational problems.


We should teach that self-development and positive contribution are the route to freedom from anxiety and to positive self-esteem. We should teach that good relationships are established and nourished by giving, not taking.


ACTION POINT: Create a good work environment and encourage the self development of your team.