Enterprises will preach the mission of the enterprise to employees, and the achievement of the mission of the enterprise needs to rely on the concerted efforts of employees. Therefore, the happiness of employees and the achievement of the company's mission are inseparable and complementary. If the company's mission and values are the "Tao", then the happiness concept of employees is the "Law". However, many entrepreneurs attach importance to corporate culture and ignore the happiness of employees. This article will talk about how to achieve the happiness of employees?
The happiness of employees is divided into two aspects: material happiness and spiritual happiness.
When it comes to material happiness, many people's first reaction is to raise wages, which cannot be said to be wrong, but if it is only so, it is a generalization. Wages are money, and money, as a general equivalent, ultimately has to realize other values in order to bring happiness to people. When money solves people's physiological needs, it brings people material happiness.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Therefore, material happiness revolves around physiological needs, in short, it is "food, clothing, shelter, life, old age, illness and death" eight words. When the needs contained in these eight words can be solved without worries, employees can achieve material happiness.
The company can increase the wages of employees and let employees achieve better "food, clothing, shelter and transportation, life, old age and illness and death" on their own needs. In addition to salary increases, what else can companies do for their employees? I'll list them below:
1, clothing: to provide employees with better quality, more and more novel styles, adapt to more seasons of tooling, so that employees love to wear tooling from the heart.
2, food: conform to the price trend, increase lunch subsidies, so that employees do not have to be too careful to order takeaway, you can eat comfortably and at ease.
3. Housing: Provide housing interest-free loan fund for old employees or employees with outstanding contributions and family difficulties.
4. Line: Provide shuttle bus and transportation subsidies for employees, provide office areas closer to home or allow SOHO.
5. Students: provide fitness areas, extend lunch breaks, establish interest groups or clubs, and provide single-man friendships.
6. Old: Pay commercial pension insurance or enterprise annuity for old employees or outstanding employees, so that employees can rely on the elderly.
7. Illness: Pay commercial medical insurance for old employees or outstanding employees to solve employees' worries about diseases.
8. Death: Provide posthumous fund for the employee's family or the employee himself, give a pension to the employee's family funeral, and solve the high burden of funeral expenses.
For material happiness, it is easy to unconsciously move from "need" to "desire". For example, if you increase the lunch allowance, you want to eat the taste of the mountains and the sea or pick and choose lunch. If you extend your lunch break, you want a longer lunch break. Therefore, for material happiness, we should define the boundary between "needs" and "desires" in accordance with the principle of "what is right", and fully meet the basic needs in the way of "preserving heavenly reason and destroying human desires", and at the same time curb the infinite expansion of selfish desires.
In addition to material happiness, spiritual happiness is more important to a person and is a more lasting experience of happiness. Spiritual happiness is the demand for happiness that will be generated after the physiological needs are met, and if the basic physiological needs are not yet met, it is difficult for people to produce the need for spiritual happiness. This is why "poor people are short-sighted", and premature emphasis on spiritual happiness before material happiness at the level of meeting physiological needs may be considered "drawing a big pie". As a business operator, we must grasp this measure well.
Happiness is a struggle
If the basic physiological needs are met, what can the company do about the spiritual well-being of its employees? To sum up, it is "to take you to struggle, to help you grow, to give you achievements".
1, take you to struggle: this is the first level of spiritual happiness. No one likes to do nothing, and there is no more painful experience than "being idle". Therefore, even lazy people will also have a sense of fulfillment in the struggle, the so-called "lazy" is just that the values of employees have not yet been unified with the company. Therefore, "take you to struggle" is first of all the philosophy of commonality, the unity of the three views, on this basis, employees will fall in love with the work, and get a sense of happiness from the struggle.
2, help you grow: this is the second level of spiritual happiness. While struggling, people will continue to learn from experience and make progress in practice. In addition to a sense of fulfillment, a sense of happiness is a sense of progress. When employees find that whether it is good times or bad times, whether it is praise or criticism from leaders, eventually their ability has improved, their rank has improved, from rookies to ashes, from xiaobai to experts, employees will feel happy from the bottom of their hearts, and further will be grateful.
3, give you achievement: this is the third level of spiritual happiness. Growing while striving, growing in ability is more likely to be done. When things are done, you will have a sense of self-identification, and customers and partners will thank you for your altruistic behavior, which will produce a sense of accomplishment and thus feel the realization of self-worth. The sense of achievement is the highest state of spiritual happiness, and the size of the sense of achievement means the level of value realization, which is also the highest level of Maslow's model.
The above describes the interpretation of material and spiritual happiness, and how we should help employees achieve material and spiritual happiness. So, what is happiness like for employees? In other words, what is the "happiness concept" of the company's employees? The concept of employee happiness can be described from the following four levels:
1. Expectation: Happiness is the yearning for a better life
2, struggle: happiness is the unremitting pursuit of goals
3, love others: happiness is the happiness of loved ones
4, not obsessed: happiness is the selfless peace of the heart
When desires are satisfied, either the next desire arises or a sense of emptiness arises. True happiness is not the satisfaction of desire, but the yearning for beauty. When looking forward to something, there will be a motivation to struggle, life will be full, this is the real sense of happiness. When the employee philosophy is shared and the values tend to be the same, the employee's yearning for a better life should be in line with the vision of the enterprise, and while the employee pursues a better life, work together to realize the vision of the enterprise.
If the vision of a company is to "cast a century-old brand", this is not a goal that a generation can achieve, and all those who are currently working in this enterprise know that in their own life course, it is likely that they will not see this enterprise for 100 years. But with this as the goal, unremitting pursuit, in the process of struggle will produce a great sense of fulfillment. Happiness is not necessarily the ultimate achievement of goals, but the way to achieving big goals to see small goals are constantly being achieved. The ending is in the distant future, but the process of the present is the most beautiful scenery.
Kazuo Inamori: Heavenly lover
Whenever we see that the people we care about are happy and happy, it is often more than our own happiness that can bring us happiness. As individuals, the people we care about are often our loved ones, loved ones, and children. As a company, we care about our customers and partners. It seems that the two are different, but in fact, they are the same.
In order to make our lovers, relatives, and children happy, we must give them sufficient material enjoyment and rich spiritual food, which requires us to first obtain material happiness and spiritual happiness before we can pass it on to our lovers, relatives, and children. In the case of corporate philosophy and consistent values, our own happiness concept should be in harmony with the corporate vision, so we must work together to achieve the corporate vision and mission in order to realize our own happiness concept. The vision and mission of the enterprise requires that we must focus on the customer and take the strivers as the basis.
Therefore, whether we want our lovers, relatives, and children to be happy in life, or we want our customers and partners to be happy at work, it is the same, they are happy, we will be happier.
Many people believe that happiness can only be generated if desires are satisfied. In fact, the opposite is true.
Desires are not satisfied, people will have a sense of anxiety, desires are satisfied, people will have a sense of emptiness. Therefore, desire is not a messenger of happiness, but a spokesman for suffering. To achieve true happiness, it is necessary to get rid of the control of desire in order to return to true freedom. Therefore, "altruism" is the highest level of happiness.
When you do something, even for the noblest reason, when you need the praise and reward of others in your heart, it is also a self-interested behavior, you will measure the ratio of return to giving in your heart, and when you fail to meet your own requirements, you will be disappointed, anxious, angry, resentful, jealous.
When you really hold the "altruistic" mentality to do things, as Wang Yangming said, "Having glory is my luck, no glory is my destiny", conscience drives you to do a thing, you only pay attention to the results of things, and do not care about the return of things to the individual, is the real "altruism". This seems to be a service to others, but it is actually a liberation from one's own heart, a freedom in life, and true happiness.
What the heart does not desire, it is impossible to be close to oneself
When a person's physical needs are fully met, he will have a sense of security.
When a person engages in what he likes every day, he will have a sense of pleasure.
When a person feels the happiness of the people around him, he will have a sense of warmth.
When a person has a clear goal and constantly strives, he will have a sense of fulfillment.
When a person's ability continues to improve, he will have a sense of progress.
When a person continues to achieve small goals, he will have a sense of accomplishment.
When a person is no longer controlled by desires and obsessions, he will have a sense of freedom.
All these feelings come together to be a person's sense of well-being. When employees share a common philosophy and align values, the definition of happiness will also tend to be consistent. The consistent concept of happiness will make employees more united and work together to achieve the company's vision, and in the process of struggle, employees will further appreciate the fullness of struggle and the achievement of goal realization, and enhance the happiness of employees. Such complementarity and virtuous circle are a harmonious unity of corporate vision and employee values.