Productivity and Work Ethics Are Partners in Increased Profitability
Productivity mean to produce something and that usually suggests that someone is paying you to produce something. Yet, given recent research, many employees or your human capital your greatest asset are not at maximum productivity because their focus is on finding other jobs to playing video games all at the expense of their employers.
These behaviors tell me that these individuals have some serious work ethics issues. When work ethics are high, productivity is also high. Yet when work ethics are low, productivity suffers and so does the bottom line.
So what are work ethics? Years ago, it was probably far easier because people in general had less distractions and greater focus. They wanted to reap the bounty of the land of good and plenty. Many immigrants including those into the early 20th century took to farming. These farmers of yesterday and today know what it means to be productive, to have a high work ethic because they can see the specific outcomes or results each day.
Unfortunately, in today’s technology driven economy, seeing the end result is not as easy. With so many people involved in the business process, the end result sometimes gets muddied along the way. And with a cultural attitude that seems to promote It is not my job, man to victim mentality, I am surprised that any work gets accomplished.
Possibly, we need to change the focus from work ethics to attitudes toward work or attitudes of productivity, ATP for short. For it is our attitudes that are demonstrated through our productive or not so productive behaviors.
By removing the word ethics, we remove a lot of judgements. And in today’s society judgements are perceived as obstacles. Even though attitudes are obstacles that do prevent productivity, they do not seem to carry as much negativity as the judgement does.
Since attitudes have been described by many has habits of thought, then having positive habits of thought toward productivity does seem to make more sense. When we understand that employee productivity is a behavior and behaviors are the outward expression of our attitudes, we can begin to build a more solid partnership between work ethics and the maximum productivity of your human capital profitability. And after all, is that not the desired result?
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