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Notes • Provide enough freedom to facilitate job excellence. Encourage and reward employee
initiative. Flextime or compressed hours could be offered.
• Provide adequate recognition, appreciation, and other motivators.
• Provide skill improvement opportunities. This could include paid education at universities
or on the job training.
• Provide job variety. This can be done by job sharing or job rotation programmes.
• It may be necessary to re-engineer the job process. This could involve redesigning the
physical facility, redesign processes, change technologies, simplification of procedures,
elimination of repetitiveness, redesigning authority structures.
2. Link employees performance directly to reward:
• Clear definition of the reward is a must

• Explanation of the link between performance and reward is important
• Make sure the employee gets the right reward if performs well
• If reward is not given, explanation is needed
3. Make sure the employee wants the reward. How to find out?
• Ask them
• Use surveys( checklist, listing, questions).

7.2.2 Outsourcing

Human resource management is the one process that makes sure that the passion and zeal of
the employees stays put throughout their tenure in the organization. It may seem very easy
to keep the motivation and performance up at all times as well as make sure that the cost per
employee is maintained at the lowest. Well, it so is not! Not one bit. Hence, many organizations,
as per current trends, outsource certain HR processes just to make sure that a certain degree
of decentralization of work is maintained.

7.2.3 Compensation Packages
Considering that the firm takes care of the recruitment for the organization, they also work out
the compensation packages. One has to admit, money is the most obvious and basic motivation
for any employee, whether they admit it or not. So the package has to be crafted well! Ordinarily,
the organization provides the firm with the general per employee budget. In accordance to
that budget, the firms works out the basic salary, incentives, health benefits, conveyance
allowances, dearness allowance and probation policies. It is not a very simple task considering
that there are several central and state policies to adhere by whilst each of these are decided.

7.2.4 Motivation and Morale Strategies
During the employees tenure, there are many times when there is a requirement to egg them
on a little bit, to push their performance toward the better. As such every organization, big
or small, follows strategies that govern the general motivation and morale boosting activities.
These activities cannot be conducted in any organization by outside entities. As such the
strategic are sculpted by the firm and the implementation is done by the in house HR executives.
In case, it is a very exuberant event, like a conference, then the firm joins hands with the in
house executives and manager for the implementation as well. But, this differs from deal to
deal.

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