A stress-free environment is the right of every employee. The stress-free environment provided by the boss eventually leads to high employee involvement and job commitment in his every daily routine task. In the situation of COVID-19 pandemic, bosses had achieved high level performance through flexible working hours and flexible working hours. Effective utilisation of resources needs employee empowerment. Employees would find better alternatives to get their job done in an effective way, if they are supported by their boss. Secrets of being a good boss are the ability to achieve and align the workforce through effective leadership and management within the resources.
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2.Continuous improvement in Quality of Work Life
7.Stay connected with employees
1. Being Informal:
A cheerleader approach is not an easy approach, as it involves many physiological changes a leader has to adopt. Facial expression, informal gestures, social interaction and controlling anger expression are included in informal behaviours of a good leader. Effective communication is only possible if the employees do not hesitate to share their ideas. Informal mentoring can be more productive than the conventional and strict orders. There is a strong link between being informal and performance improvement. Empowerment is a difficult instrument but the studies showed its significance for organisational performance. Employee empowerment is the tool of Quality of Work Life.
2. Continuous improvement in Quality of work life:
Quality of Work life is a broad measure to improve the employees performance. Quality of Work life encourages job involvement, job satisfaction and job commitment to lower turnover rate (Hussain & Saleem, 2014). Quality of work life contains flexible working hours, empowerment, relation and cooperation between employees, resources and facilities adequacy and job security. Although the target is not effortless, a good leader believes in continuous improvement.
Organisational vision and goals must be aligned with the employees to achieve long term performance. Clarity in organisational visions and goals provided by the leader helps to align employees with the goals. Effective and timely strategies must be adopted to achieve the high level of performance. A good leader aligns employees with the organisational visions and goal to overcome the obstacles.
4. Stay updated:
In the era of dynamic technology, organisations pay more attention to research and development. At HRM level research and development is named as changing and innovation. Leaders can play a significant role to communicate about the benefits of upcoming technology in the long run. Good leaders can reduce the amount of resistance at employees level.
5. Motivation:
Change in technology has changed the preferences of employees. A good leader adopts the change and improves the leadership abilities to motivate employees. Energy, Enthusiasm, Endurance, Emotional Intelligence, Eloquence, Empowerment, Effectiveness, Execution, Excellence, and Ethics are 11 key abilities of a good leader (Rao, 2012). These abilities can improve the level of motivation in the employees.
6. Improve leadership skills:
Continuous improvement is the imperative part of leadership skills. Understand yourself before understanding employees’ behaviour. Align your leadership skills before encouraging employees’ engagement for the organisational long term benefit. This self regulation will help to recognise the emotions of employees.
- Informal feedback
- Focus on employees performance
- Appreciate changes and innovation
- Focus on Quality of Work Life
- Shared action and plans
- Support timely learning and development
- Appreciate team work
- Flexibility in working hours (if possible)
- Provision of adequate resources and facilities
- Empowerment
- Encourage better working environment and organisational culture
are some key features to improve leadership abilities. A good leader always positively reinforces human capital for better alignment with long term goals and visions.
7. Stay connected with employees:
Interactive abilities are about ‘how you see feelings?’, connect and speak with others. These interactive abilities help to address and determine upcoming problems. Connection and binding will timely evaluate employees. Leadership abilities emphasise on shared achievement and accomplishment powered by shared vision. Effective communication plays a significant role in the bonding between employees and boss.
8. Stop Negative reinforcement:
Everybody is not good at all jobs. Highlighting the weakness of employees is considered a bad practice. A leader must be respectful in employees’ appraisals. It is better to observe human capital properly to make sure that appraisals are based on the facts and figures. While considering solutions for key business challenges, empower employees to take part in the dynamic cycle and to share their own perspective. A good boss should never commit these errors “Deceit, Constraint, Coercion, Selfishness, Inequity, Cruelty, Disregard, Deification” (Katz, 2010). In the past, these behaviours were practised which led to serious consequences in the long run. If the leader loses his confidence among employees, he will never be successful to encourage positive reinforcements. It would be a big loss for a leader among employees. Positive reinforcement is the primary tool for a boss to encourage and appreciate employees for better performance.
Conclusion
A good boss works as a ladder for employees’ personal growth. A good boss always takes steps to continuous improvement of himself and employees. Effective execution of a significant drive appreciates involvement and commitment of employees. A good leader works as a mentor, cheerleader, and problem solver for employees.
To avoid delays and lost deals, association must be developed between organisational culture and straightforward behaviours. Understanding business circumstances, proactive decision making and interactive behaviour towards change is not easy but can be achieved through continuous feedback and good leadership skills. A good leader turns his anxieties into excitements for the collective benefits. As flexible working hours and work-from-home played a significant role in COVID-19, leaders proved that excellent employees performance can be achieved through good leadership skills. Effective leadership is a tool to improve the employees performance. Good behaviours lead to better quality of work life and vice versa.
References
Hussain, T., & Saleem, S. (2014). Do employees’ job satisfaction, involvement, and commitment mediate relationship between Quality of Work Life and employees’ retention? World Applied Sciences Journal, 30(2), 245-252. http://idosi.org/wasj/wasj30(2)14/22.pdf
Katz, I. J. (2010). Secrets for Being a Better Boss. ezine articles. Retrieved 2022, from https://ezinearticles.com/?Secrets-for-Being-a-Better-Boss&id=5252962
Rao, M.S. (2012). Secrets of Your Leadership Success: The 11 Indispensable E’s of a Leader. The Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 5(2), 7. https://scholar.valpo.edu/jvbl/vol5/iss2/7
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