Thursday, March 20, 2008

Getting the extra bit out of your employees:

Getting the extra bit out of your employees:

An employee is required to contribute 40 to 48 hours of productive work in terms of service or visible output. The very purpose of employment is for the employer to generate enough revenue so that he can not only pay your wages, but also make some profit for himself and retain a portion of the profits for contingencies. It is widely accepted that in most cases though the employer is required by law to pay the employee for all the 365 days of the year, the employee output is restricted to some 250 days or in that region. Thus, even when the employee is not working, the employer has to support him/her. The manufacturing sector can lay down norms to measure the output of each employee and relate it to the quantum of work produced. But, in the services sector it is difficult to quantify the output of each individual. The flow of work can also not be uniform in the case of the services sector.

In this context, let us examine the working of a Supermarket. The flow of customers into the supermarket will vary during the day as also during the month. In most cases, the evenings will see more customers coming in, while the mornings will see fewer of them. The noon period of the day can be thinner still. Thus, we have a situation where the productive output of the employee is not available to the employer all through the 7 or 8 hours that he/she spends in the Supermarket. So, the effective throughput (actual time spent in producing goods/services) diminishes to anywhere between 5 and 6 or 4 and 6 hours. The employer has to earn adequate revenue to compensate the employees and even take care of eventualities. Therefore, in most parts of the world, employers, particularly in the services sector, manage to get that extra bit of work done by each employee.

Institutions, enterprises or organizations strive continuously to optimize their return on investment and use employee motivation as a major tool to achieve this. After all, it is the collective performance of employees that would manifest itself into a successful enterprise. It is not essential at all times to monetize motivation. There are several other means of motivating the employees to get optimal results. For example, in the case under discussion, we need to get an extra 30 minutes of work from each employee. The employer is unwilling to pay for that extra time or simply cannot afford to. So many terminologies and reasons will be attributed to safeguard that extra bit of money. But, heads of departments still have to achieve the desired results and with no extra money available in their hands.

Though money is very important to employees, other factors go into employment. In the instant case, the manager can explain to the employees that by spending an extra 30 minutes after the scheduled time and reorganizing the merchandise for the next day, they will be able to start right away when they commence work on the following day. Customers walking in during the first hour will be able to transact their business quickly and this in turn will bring in more of such early customers. Another method is to address all the employees together and evolve a pattern whereby some employees can report early for work and leave at the scheduled time, some employees can shrink their breaks to accommodate the extra time required, and some can even leave late. After all, every one of us spend a lions share of the daylight hours in our respective breadwinning activity. With the correct methodology employed, getting employees to contribute 30 minutes of extra work per day can be achieved without denting the employer’s purse.
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Friday, May 4, 2007

Find the Best Affiliate Programs

Finding the best affiliate programs can be a difficult task. How are you supposed to know which affiliate programs are good and which are not? It is especially hard to figure out if you are new to affiliate marketing.


The best affiliate programs are not always the first things that you run across on your searches. How are you supposed to know which sellers you can trust? All affiliate programs sound amazing when explained by those selling them that is why it is so hard to find the best affiliate programs.

One of the best affiliate programs is Commission Junction. This affiliate program has grown exponentially over the last while. It is a huge affiliate program network. They have thousands of merchants working successfully all towards the same goal. You will not find a more affordable or more successful affiliate program.

No matter who you are or the size of your site or business you will be able to make big money with the help of Commission Junction. This is a two tier commission plan, which allows you to make twice as much money in the long run. On all new affiliates that you bring in you will get 5% of their commissions. That is forever, there is no time limit on this.


That means that once you have brought in many successful affiliates you will be able to retire and still make money! Commission Junction offers you many different programs for you to sell through your site. These are some of the best affiliate programs available anywhere and you will be able to use any of them at Commission Junction. If you have a targeted niche market you can choose only the programs that are specific to this market.

Orvis is one of the largest and most important companies in New England style apparel, luggage and gifts. Now you can get involved with this fantastic lucrative company by becoming an affiliate. This is definitely one of the best affiliate programs on the Internet. You will get 15% commissions on all of the sales that you refer to their web site. Communicating with the affiliate program administration is so easy.

Many other programs make it very hard to get answers to your questions or help but with this program you will be able to talk to the people in charge directly right away. Affiliate programs have not been this easy ever before. Orvis offers you unlimited income by bringing quality customers to their web site. Their products are top quality goods that anyone would want to own which makes your job that much easier.

The outdoor lifestyle has never looked so attractive than with Orvis. Orvis has been successful for many years and this company is showing no sign of anything but growth. If you have been searching for the best affiliates programs you have found a gold mine in Orvis.

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