Professionalism In The Workplace

Professionalism at work

Professionalism at the work place is necessary because it promotes long time success of any business. Interactions among employees and the interaction with their customers is key to ensuring that the objectives and goals of a company are met. Professional leaders set an example for the sub-ordinates and likewise, professional employees are able to take pride in their roles which leads to better performance at work. This paper will be a case study of an organization whose employees have issues like low morale, lateness to work, disagreements on workloads, harassment of fellow employees and low drive to enthusiasm. The paper will look into motivation, leadership and conflict resolution strategies a newly hired leader

A leader has the most important key environmental factors that impacts employees’ motivation. Leaders can motivate the employees or demoralize them through their own attitudes towards employees, how they relate with them and even the work environment. Employees need to be trusted and entrusted even with critical roles of the company. A leader can motivate employees by responsibly and accurately communicating employee responsibilities, giving them all information they need to perform a particular task (Stachowska and Czaplicka, 2017).. This is because employees want to feel part of the company and know about the happening of the company and have the right information to enable them make decisions concerning their work. Another way to motivate them is by providing them with opportunities to develop and improve their skills, which can be done by allowing them to attend seminars, meetings and activities. Appreciating employee’s work and efforts also motivates them to work even harder and

Conflict resolution increases group cohesion, encouraging employees to develop mutual respect for the others and renews their faith to work together. Effective conflict resolutions can also solve the problems brought about by the conflict. Increased understanding among the employees such that they are aware of the situations at hand may give the employees’ insight of how they are able to meet their goals without conflicting with each other. Employees can approach resolving conflict first by identifying the main issue of concern, then try to work it out amongst themselves. If they are not able to work things out amongst themselves, then they can consult a mediator, to help them come into an agreement (Trudel and Reio, 2011). Conflicts can be solved easily by apology, it does not hurt to apologize when you make