Team Dynamics

Communication within a corporate world is an essential element required to achieve and maintain an ethical work environment. The company’s morale is a qualifying factor in sustaining effective labor force, which easily influenced either by a negative or positive communication within the organization. Communication is a determining aspect in a responsible corporate environment. Moreover, to achieve positive morale amongst the working force a crucial element is staff turnover, which is directly correlated to productivity of the company. A corporate morale is a nucleus in achieving a lower employee turnover rate, higher productivity and a healthy working environment.

In order to build a more responsible and better world for our future generations we must improve and attain morally ethical work environment. An indispensable element of efficient productivity, mutual understanding and ethical environment is communication. We have many modes of communication; in-person meetings; group discussions; written communications via mail or e-mail; memorandums; telephone including voicemail and more effectively direct communication. Every method of communication has its effect either positive or negative; hence, the objective of a communication should be an efficient and positive communication for the benefit of everyone involved. In the Pitney Bowes Survey it was stated, “An average employee receives about 190 communications a day by paper, voicemail, email and phone”. The aim of every effective communicator should be to deliver a message as direct and as precise as possible for it to be efficient and cognizable. A positive benefit of a direct in person communication is that it allows for an immediate response from communicatee, and hardly leaves any room for misinterpretations or misunderstandings. Another example of a positively effective communication is through meeting and group discussions. A meeting or a group discussion allows one to brainstorm or share information amongst peers or subordinates. It further allows the group to develop action steps toward accomplishing a goal, especially when vital information must be communicated down to subordinates. An informative group meeting is one of the most effective ways to communicate company objectives, anticipated changes or company progress allowing for a direct communication to the employee and a sense of employee involvement. Additionally, an often used mode of communication in today’s technologically advanced environment that is wildly recognized and adopted is e-mail. The e-mail is the fastest and often the most expected way to communicate the message to the greatest number of people intended. Today, a great deal of company memorandums or agenda is communicated via e-mail, which allows the management to quickly communicate its message. Nonetheless, the e-mail has its negative aspects, where frequently the delivered message may be intercepted by uninvited hackers. In all, to attain and maintain an ethically moral environment, a clear and positively direct communication is essential and indispensable.

In an attempt to sustain ethical and productive company morale reducing staff turnover rate is crucial for achieving such objective. A high staff turnover will have a counterproductive impact on a business, especially if those leaving are key contributors to the success and stability of the business. The reason for high employee departure rate is often-inappropriate corporate environment, often related to lack of benefits, unfair treatment, inadequate compensation and the absence of a positive and constructive communication; which results in financial debt to the company. The company management can minimize the ways in which it affects a business and company turnover rate through well thought-out staff management meetings while operating in a more efficient manner. Employee wage is rarely the sole reason for an employee to leave the company, although low wage levels are often a disincentive to stay and be productive within the company. A company must be supportive and encouraging of its staff. When certain employees go above and beyond their obligations and position requirements such effort should often be acknowledged and rewarded, thus, creating incentives for the employee to sustain his or her productivity and encouraging others to follow. If businesses devote resources concentrating on employee development and recognition, the company will rip the ultimate benefit of loyal workforce and a much lower turnover rate, which will in turn lead to a greater employee morale and higher production rate. It is important to manage staff turnover so as to minimize the costs and negative impact of unwanted turnover and the increased cost associated with replacing the loss of workforce. Companies spend an extraordinary amount of time and money training new hires when those valuable resources can be allocated for developing its