Keeping your employees happy leads to employee retention

All employees want to be happy in their workplace because if they are happy at work this means that they are not going to dread going into work each day, they will be happy to get up and go to work. The best thing about keeping your employees happy is that happy employees mean long term employees. This means that for your small business your employee turnaround is going to be lower because you will be retaining employees. However, in order to keep your employees happy you are going to have to do certain things.

One of the best things that you can do to help keep your employees' happy is to create a positive work environment. The great thing about creating a positive work environment is that it is not going to cost your small business any money. The best thing that you can do to create a positive work environment is to treat your employees they way that you would want to be treated as an employee. Here are some tips on other things that you can do to create a positive work environment.

Tip one:
Hire people who are self-motivated so that your small business can have more relaxed rules and regulations, you won't have to be constantly looking over your employees' shoulders. By not having to look over their shoulders constantly you are helping to add to the positive work environment through your actions. The way that you are adding to the positive working environment is that by not constantly checking up on your employees you are showing them that you trust them to get the work done. By showing your employees that you trust them you are motivating them through your actions, and motivated employees will work harder and stick around longer than other employees.

Tip two:
Try to be relaxed and flexible with your employees, know what their needs and issues are so that you can work with them rather than against them. To find out about their specific needs and issues you will need to listen to your employees when they are talking to you, when they do talk to you about something that is going on do everything that you can to accommodate their individual schedules as much as possible. For example, if you have an employee who coaches their kid's soccer team and needs to get off early 2 days a week try to make that happen even if it involves that employee working late two days out of the week to make up for the time. If employees need time off for doctors appointments try to give them the time off. Regardless of how accommodating you are you need to make sure that you set out some ground rules for taking time off or getting off early, most small businesses require that you ask for any time off at least two weeks in advance, unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Tip three:
Make sure that you are not taking advantage of your employees. Employees who feel like they are doing everything while others are doing nothing are not likely to be loyal. Therefore, when you are delegating the assignments be sure to give them out equally or if somebody has more responsibility because they always do a better job pay them a higher salary and take the time to explain that to them.

These are just a few of the things that you can do to help keep your employees happy. There are numerous other things that you can do, including providing competitive salaries and benefits for your employees, which is going to cost your small business some money, but will be worth it in the end.