One of the best ways to persuade workers to apply or stay with a company for the duration is through employee benefits. It’s this perk that entices qualified workers to consider a company or stick with it, giving business owners the ability to determine if they’re up for the job, assuming they have the appropriate credentials.
This system also grants business owners and human resource professionals with an opportunity to see if a prospective hire has passion for their line of work. If they do, company owners should pull out all the stops to ensure their happiness, as few employers say that passion is the appropriate adjective that describes their staff.
According to a new report, “Passion of the Explorer,” which was performed by professional services firm Deloitte, just 12 percent of the nation possesses the attributes that define passion, like a strong commitment to a line of work, embracing challenges and a desire to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and supervisors.
Less than 7 percent of non-management workers passionate
In instances where business owners have witnessed passion, it tends to be on the management side of things, the report found. Executives had the most prominent attributes of passion at 20 percent, while non-management accounted for 7 percent of business owners’ passionate workforce.
John Hagel, director of consulting at Deloitte, indicated that in today’s competitive marketplace, where the need to perform consistently is crucial to a company’s success, business owners need to do all they can to make their workforce want to be better and have enthusiasm for their jobs.
“CEOs need to move beyond short term solutions that offer one-time performance bumps including giving a bonus or implementing an employee engagement program,” said Hagel. “Instead leaders should focus on identifying and cultivating the untapped talent of their existing workers to achieve a longer term performance improvement.”
He added that this poll should serve as a wake-up call to senior executives, as it suggests that many workers today are seemingly going through the motions of the typical 9-to-5 day.
Passionate workers are not only excited about what they do, but they tend to do more for their employer. The report found that the passionate work five hours additional hours per week than those who aren’t as emotional about their job functions. They’re also more likely to be available when out of the office, encouraging their employer to get in touch with them when their services are needed.
Having a reliable workforce can help steer business owners through murky waters, which company owners wade through all too often. Nearly 50 percent of executives interviewed in a recent poll said that they contend with at least one unexpected crisis or development every week, according to recruitment services firm Accountemps. Though high, this is down from 80 percent when a similar survey was done 10 years ago.
Approximately 10 percent of respondents said that they experience an unanticipated predicament several times per day, down from 19 percent in 2004.
Having a reliable workforce to turn to when things go bad is one of the best ways to endure these challenges, which human resource experts say are ideally dealt with head on.
