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Tips In Making A Good Employee Motivation Questionnaire
By: Lucile Taylor
Motivation is as equally important to success as talent or personal qualities. With an employee motivation questionnaire, you can gain insight to the factors that motivates each of your employees so you can boost their performance and help them maximize their potential. You can use an employee motivation questionnaire for staff members at all levels.
An employee motivation questionnaire is a tool to measure the motivation of a worker, giving the management a broad understanding of what factors fuel motivation as well as reduce it. It can also help in identifying how long an employee will keep his efforts and what situations will drive him so. By asking your staff to complete an employee motivation questionnaire, you can become better equipped to develop strategies to lower staff turnover. (more…)
Empowering Entrepreneurs: Purchasing Co-ops Give Small Businesses An Edge
By: Donna Abernathy
Howard Brodsky set out to conquer the carpet world. Dan Bleier just wanted to save his family-owned business. But both cherished their independent status in a retail chain, “big box” business world. Now, each realizes success through a purchasing cooperative.
The pair spent almost eight months reviewing different business models, disqualifying one after another. Then they looked at cooperatives. Brodsky and Bleier are founders of two of the estimated 300 purchasing cooperatives in the United States—a sector which serves roughly 50,000 independent business owner-members. (more…)