Ownership in the Workplace

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Ownership in the Workplace

by Waleska Berguño

 

 

Regardless the segment and size of companies, a company with a well-defined corporate culture, notably gives a great value on employees´ expected performance Even being the employees from any hierarchical level, who treat work as if it were their own business, who have a sense of ownership. In order to figure out what is an employee who has a sense of ownership: be an employee has the feeling of the act, state, or right of possessing something. The companies want everybody to feel like an owner, at the most different levels. The owner of the machine. The owner of the Finance area. The owner of that project. The owner of Production Line. People who work well in this inspiring, positive and energetic workplace environment indeed have been searched unremitting by cultures of high performance and well planned demand. Every organization needs to build a culture of ownership. Ownership isn’t assigned or given. Ownership is taken. I can’t appoint ownership. Because the owner is the owner.

 

  The employees have to assimilate about the importance of getting good motivating and engaging organizational behavior through goal setting, workplace improvements, positive reinforcement and performance recognition. These mechanisms contribute  to creating a healthily challenging work environment. The leaders can provide recognition for employees through newsletters, interoffice emails and at company events throughout the year or consider quarterly and yearly bonuses for employees who meet predetermined productivity levels. The recognition policy can be an ally. The politic of good example  can works very well like reference to others employers of the company.

 

Arguably, people who are recognized for various achievements are more motivated to continue and expand their efforts, not afraid to expose their ideas or take the ownership attitude. When the people feel confident in the workplace, inevitably they perform better. Undoubtedly they may become more creative, independent and happy to work well even under a high pressure productive environment.

 

Certainly the comfort zone is the main enemy of all professionals who wish to grow in their careers. When the employees remain comfortable and relaxed positions in the workplace, while what really is needed  to achieve new goals is a state of relative anxiety, stress and discomfort. Finally, resilience at work, that is essential to develop a human and empathic look that needs to deal with adversities, conflicts in the environment of pressure. The companies would like the employees to proactively improve the role, continually increase output, and increase overall efficiency but taking the ownership of improving the task would take away from that comfort zone facing  few people look for discomfort. Once people stop making excuses, stop blaming others and take responsibility for everything in their lives, they are compelled to act and solve their problems.

 

In business, as in life, prevention is better than cure. Do not allow complacency to occur. The most importants actions should be taken by leaders are keep people engaged and motivated to act and encourage both continuous learning and training.The leaders have to let employees see their own potential, stimulate them with their career prospects and foster their talents also. The success ownership is built on individual excellence aiming at the accomplishments of teamwork. Is important to know positive results are possible by great leadership at all levels.

 

Valuing this ownership feeling, organizations try to maximize the dedication of employees, aligning business interests and facilitating the coordination of activities. The example and practice of company employees speaks louder and can be replicated at all levels through inspiration toward continuous improvement to achieve the needed results.

 

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Ownership.

 

This is not necessarily a good word to use in the overall subject area you seem to be talking about.

 

Commitment, devotion, dedication, consistent high performance would possibly be better words/phrases to use.

 

Why? For many years I worked for an oil giant and we acquired another oil giant. Many of the employees who came with the newly acquired company insisted that they 'owned' their jobs and had been promised that they would never against their will be transferred (sideways or promotion) to other jobs, and the job descriptions for the jobs they 'owned' would never be changed. It as clear that that their old employer had believed it was a good idea to encourage the staff to believe they 'owned' their jobs.

 

In other words 'ownership' of jobs became a complex issue and eventually there was a confrontation between the self elected 'leader' of the 'owned jobs' group and the corporate director of the company which had bought the company.

 

The leader of the owned jobs group indicted she would ask a lawyer to get a court order to indicate that the 'owned jobs/jobholders' could not be 'touched'.

 

The corporate director said 'OK, we will pay the fees of any lawyer you want to engage'.

 

The 'owned jobs' group checked around then hired a high profile lawyer who promptly told them they had no case whatever and that the jobs in the company are 'owned' by the owner(s) of the company,

 

Further discussions were organised quickly: corporate director, the 'owned jobs' group and their lawyer.

 

Their lawyer made it clear to the 'owned jobs' group that they simply could not claim they 'owned' their jobs. He also mentioned there's nothing wrong with saying that you are committed or devoted to your work.

 

The corporate director added that their new employer intended to bring them under the company performance management system and they would get high pay rises and in some circumstances additional bonus for higher than 'fully satisfactory performance'.

 

This was all new to the 'owned jobs' group and they readily agreed. 

 

 

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

there are no people here proud of their work.... 

 

look at all the shoddy work in plumbing, electrical, ...

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2 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

there are no people here proud of their work.... 

 

look at all the shoddy work in plumbing, electrical, ...

And yet my top programmer delivers work that consistently exceeds my expectations, and clearly demonstrates a commitment to quality and excellence.