“Respect: a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.” Oxford Dictionary.
Mutual Respect at work is the foundation of establishing a healthy working environment as it when we have mutual respect for one another we can value and appreciate the qualities, abilities and achievements of others. We feel happy, loyal and are motivated to contribute our best in our organization if we feel we are valued, appreciated and belonged. In simple terms, we respect others only when we feel we are being respected.
If we have mutual respect in our workplace we tend to create a conducive working environment which leads to enhanced productivity, efficient operations, more communication leading to more collaborative approaches leading to happy and satisfied workforce. A happy and satisfied workforce is more engaged and this is the need of the hour for all organization striving to be the best with competitive advantage.
An environment of # Mutual Respect leads to employee satisfaction resulting in enhanced employee engagement which in turn reduces stress, enhances share and care.
Statistics Speaks; in the # 2018 Gallup Study of more than 350,000 American employees it was found that only 30% were engaged at work.
# HBR survey found that out of 20,000 employees, # respect was the leading behaviour that encourages greater commitment and engagement.
The goal for each one of us is to create an environment of # Mutual Respect. We can do wonders if we imbibe it in ourselves.
In my capacity, I try to treat each person, no matter what he/she might be with respect. When we treat a person of low social status with respect, the brightness in his/ her eyes speaks and it makes me so happy that can’t be expressed in words. Lets try or continue…