Attribute of Organizations
Autonomy at work
Autonomy at work and freedom to make decisions goes a long way to motivate the employees on achieving much beyond their targets with little or no supervision since they will be responsible for their own decisions. The most interesting job that I have done is being a picnic and tours guide for the high school vacation groups particularly during the school breaks. This involves helping the students to access the interesting sites in groups, planning their logistics, guiding their tours and putting together activities for them. In as much as there was sufficient room to make decisions on my own, there could have been more autonomy extended to me as a guide in terms of the choice of the sites to suggest to the different groups instead of the employer always dictating the sites where a particular group was to be take. There could have been also the autonomy in the choice and range of activities that I would expose the teams to as opposed to an already prepared schedule of activities being handed over to me.
Employee shortage
In a situation where there are shortages in terms of employees, there are various ways that can be used by the organization to ensure the output is maximum and still the few remaining employees are not subjected to exhaustion in the long run. One of the ways is to allow the few employees to specialize in what they are most proficient in within the organization instead of doing everything that is close to their line of specialization. This specialization will then allow a maximization of skills and hence increase in production with much lesser strain and in that case making the employees enjoy their work instead of feeling strained. The other way is to outsource through consultancy the few complex duties that may...
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