After a good wage, this is what employees really want

letting people work the way they want pays off. It increases productivity, saves on a host of infrastructure costs, and produces salary savings when employees are literally looking to work less.

I was learning that one very important factor in my own job satisfaction was being appreciated; it was even more important than compensation. While this is not unusual—many people feel this way!—it is important to know your own job-satisfaction motivators.

Reduced compensation in the absence of better working conditions hurts employees. When companies seek to capture value without increasing it, the consequences for customers and employees are very different. Customers have an easy remedy. They simply do not purchase the product. But for employees, the situation is more challenging. Most of us need o

Time and again research shows that what interests people to perform above and beyond average performance is not money, but what the psychologist Herzberg called motivators – things like recognition, interesting work, feeling part of the ‘in’ crowd…

Perhaps no human need is more neglected in the workplace than to feel valued.