Leadership in Action: Leading the Way to Employee Satisfaction

In Search of Satisfaction

The connection between managerial effectiveness and employee satisfaction with organizational climate leads inevitably to a larger question: What can managers do to improve their performance in ways that boost employees' perceptions of the company as a whole and give the organization a greater chance of success?

A strategy for enhancing managerial performance is a subject too large to tackle here, but there are some questions executives can ask themselves to step onto the path to improvement: Do you promote a healthy team atmosphere? Do you welcome and nurture new ideas and new approaches? Are you communicative with your subordinates, and do you have the courage to be honest with them? Are you open to the possibility ...