11th Annual HR Conference - Express Employment Professionals

The Leader’s Role in Creating Fulfilling Jobs

Leaders, supervisors, managers and executives impact employee morale and job satisfaction. An employee’s relationship with their direct manager is the most important factor to job fulfillment. Three critical elements that surface in the workplace, however, include:

• Anonymity - The desire and need to be known, understood and appreciated. Leaders must not allow their employees to see themselves as invisible, generic or anonymous.
• Irrelevance – Knowing our job matters to someone; anyone. Employees must see the connection between their work and their company’s mission.
• Immeasurement - Being able to gauge one’s own level of contribution, and identify their own successes and failures based on objective and quantitative measures.

Especially during difficult and uncertain economic times, we as leaders need to take a genuine interest in our people, remind them of the impact their work has on others and help them establish creative ways to measure and assess their performance. As all studies agree, employees don’t quit companies, they quit bosses. If we have employees who are overwhelmed in job misery, we as leaders must take the responsibility to transition from job misery to job fulfillment.