Motivation: Minimize Workplace Negativity

Susan Heathfield has posted an article with tips for minimizing workplace negativity. She suggests the following seven tips:

1. Provide opportunities for people to make decisions about and control and/or influence their own job.
2. Make opportunities available for people to express their opinion about workplace policies and procedures.
3. Treat people as adults with fairness and consistency.
4. Help people feel like members of the in-crowd.
5. Afford people the opportunity to grow and develop.
6. Provide appropriate leadership and a strategic framework, including mission, vision, values, and goals.
7. Provide appropriate rewards and recognition so people feel their contribution is valued.