Todays Manager

There is an old saying "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link". That holds good for a team as well. As a manager you have to deliver on some goals with your team members and its of immense importance that you get positive support from all your team members. Within your team there would be people who are very positive and motivated and at least some who are not that motivated. In one of my previous article i had written on how to handle unmotivated employees, here we focusing on reasons for negativity within employees.

A teams performance can severely impacted if there is continuous negativity at the workplace among your team members. Negativity leads to low morale and low motivation on the employee. And more seriously negativity can spread rapidly if not brought under control.

As a manager you closely work with various people in your team, allowing you to keep your fingers on the pulse of the team. Keeping this proximity would help you to identify the symptoms of negativity before its morale-busting consequences damage your workplace. But first let us understand the five major reason that causes of employee negativity.

1. Continuous excessive workload on employee/employees
2. Concerns about management’s ability to lead the company/team forward successfully
3. Anxiety about the his/her own future, growth prospects, income and then retirement security
4. Lack of challenge in their work/ daily tasks, with monotonous work pattern boredom intensifies and so does frustration about work.
5. Insufficient recognition for the level of contribution and effort provided, and concerns that his/her income isn’t commensurate with performance delivered.

Now that you know the reasons of negativity within your workplace you could now work on the solving this. Its very important that you keep the negativity at bay and all the employees have a positive outlook on their work.