Employee benefit system, properly organized employee relations and employee involvement into company's life are strongest instruments of effective team building

If you, as good employer, would like to get maximum of commitment from your employees you should take care about employee benefit system, system of employee participation and system of clear employee relations. It includes various non-wage compensations provided to employees in addition to their normal salaries. Good employer should be ready to offer different benefits to employees, such as insurance, social security, daycare, vacations and so on.  System of employee participation means high level of staff involvement into social and business life of the company. System of employee participation should make employees feel their involvement into the mission of their company, process of decision-making, work planning, profit sharing etc. Effective system of employee relations is intended to allocate responsibilities, roles and duties, set mutual relationships between employees and eliminate any misunderstandings in this field. These three systems can be considered as main factors of effective team building.

Company management should consider employees as basic element of business and relations with employer should be mutually beneficial, not only in money expression, but may include a lot of development opportunities, such as help with effective job orientation within professional and social opportunities, providing staff development programs etc., on the other hand employer need to find in personnel reliable and loyal partner. But prior to move deeper through the way of full employee involvement, employer should ensure that he/she found right person.

This can be made in environment of effective organizational structure, clear and smoothly running system of employee relations and with a help of employee evaluation system that can show psychological and professional effectiveness of each employee. If employee meets requirements he/she can be integrated into programs of employee development and employee participation.

Fair system of employee evaluation is intended to identify competence and disclose level of effectiveness of each employee. To be effective and enthusiastic employee should feel himself/herself as an owner of process he/she performs, feel opportunities for development and initiative, feel involvement into company activities and be interested in extra-efforts in work.

Employee involvement into company projects and orientation within company activities can be ensured with a help of task management groupware that combines capabilities of personnel management, project management and daily business tasks management. VIP Task Manager is a time and task planning groupware which allows breaking-down projects into tasks, assigning tasks to executors, placing tasks into task groups, and tracking course of task performance in real-time regime.

VIP Task Manager is easy-to-use task management groupware which allows multiple users access one database via LAN and Internet. It features:

• Tasks (sales plans, business processes, procedures etc.) planning, reporting and tracking;
• Management of office employees, departments and small projects;
• Task List, Task Tree, Scheduler (Calendar) modes;
• Setting of timelines, priorities, tasks order and workloads;
• Common and individual schedule management;
• Time, workflow, productivity, KPI control;
• Customization of task attributes;
• Charts and exportable reports;
• Management of access rights;
• Real-time collaboration;

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