How to Achieve a Wide and Sustainable Success
By: Inbar Granat
Chosen Audience: Managing Director of an established family business
Cass Business School
Student ID: 130013311
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Dear Managing Director,
As a Managing Director of a mid-size business, it is important to know that there is more to success than profit. Business success also includes the message conveyed and the impact of the business on its customers, employees, society, the community and the environment, as well as the relationships that are formed because of the business. Additionally, it is important to
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First and foremost, you must have a clear purpose for the business and it cannot be “to make money”, it must be deeper than that. Think about why you created the business in the first place, what did you intend to achieve with is, and what message did you want to send the customers and the society. Write down your core purpose in clear and concise manner. This affects all of your actions as you will consider if the purpose is being achieved and the message is being transmitted in everything you do.
After having a clear purpose, you must reflect upon the impact and relationships your business creates for various stakeholders:
1. Your business and your employees
Your employees should be satisfied with their job, to allow them to be motivated. Motivated and happy employees create a better atmosphere in the workplace and increase the satisfaction of customers and therefore sales. Hence, it is important to ensure that the employees are satisfied with their jobs. In order to do so, you could arrange weekly or monthly meetings with the employees to listen to their thoughts and feelings, which will allow you to adjust the employment and workplace conditions accordingly.
Additionally, your employees should believe in the purpose of your business. They should understand not just what their jobs are or how things work in the business, but WHY the business does what it does.
Employees are the most important asset of an organization and organization has the responsibility to keep happy, motivated and satisfied so that their interest does not diminish in work. Moreover, when employees are kept happy and satisfied then their productivity rises as they feel that the company has given them the importance.
1. Compile a business vision about the type of product or service you think your company needs to develop. Next, describe the business values and corporate values that you want to create.
1. Compile a business vision about the type of product or service you think your company needs to develop. Next, describe the business values and corporate values that you want to create.
Employees should always be motivated; this attracts talent, opens up new channels for innovation and creativity and brings in a sense of satisfaction among them which helps the growth and development of the organization.
Job satisfaction: ensuring that employees are supported and feel confident in undertaking their duties; providing task variety and achievable targets to promote fulfilment
This survey is aimed at establishing what motivate and to establish whether employees are satisfied in whatever they do in the organization.
Researchers in the past have made valuable discovery about employee relations what is the cause of dissatisfaction and satisfaction at work. Companies that want to
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Create and communicate a fair vision and mission for your business. Studies show that most people want to believe that there is a purpose and meaning in their work. If your team happen to understand the meaning and direction of their company and their role in creating the desired results, they are looking to gain a sense of purpose and
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Job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences. It has been treated both as a general attitude and satisfaction with five specific dimensions of the job: pay, the work itself, promotion opportunities, supervision, and coworkers. Challenging work, valued rewards, opportunities for advancement, competent supervision, and supportive coworkers are dimensions of the job that can lead to satisfaction (Nelson & Quick, 2013, pg.
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