Retaining and keeping employees motivated is also an ongoing challenge in many cases and agencies need to look to improve job characteristics and reward systems to encourage workforce motivation and capitalize on employees’ talents, MSPB has said.
Apart from the obvious (keeping the government open and paychecks on time), MSPB noted that ensuring that employees’ interests, goals, and capabilities align with the characteristics of their jobs, and linking employees’ work and accomplishments to agency mission success can be instrumental in motivating employees’ effort towards their jobs.
Similarly, taking stock of employees’ reward desires, tailoring recognition accordingly, and making sure employees see connections between their work efforts, valued rewards, and performance, can help fuel their motivational fire, according to MSPB.
It said good supervisors developing high quality working relationships with their subordinates are critical to these strategies paying off. Good employee-supervisor dynamics are also necessary for identifying situations where job characteristics can be altered to better support employees’ interests, goals, capabilities, and ultimately motivation, MSPB argues.
