Nurturing the People for their authenticity

Modern world management has tested that the crucial asset of the organization is their employee. Since all their mental energy, their ideas, physical efforts and their time are deployed at work.

According to the work and the position describes who they are and what are stand for. All managers think that their team members to think and act like every employees and bring same or similar values to the organizations. Every employee is unique and authentic in many ways and when nurtured can offer business benefits, since we all look for the right “Organizational and cultural fit” when hiring new employees.

What is the meaning of ‘Authentic’ at work?

People should ‘be themselves’ at work from their private life. The person’s own sprite or character, personality enforced or shaped by the practices of the co-workers. People’s authenticity could be developed through the psychological contract which is not the legal contract of employment, or any written statement of terms and conditions of contract. As the term implies, it exists purely in the mind of the employee and their managers. This is unwritten and never clearly articulated. It has been described by Armstrong (2009: p.297) as follows.

“The psychological contract expresses the combination of beliefs held by an individual and his or her employer about what they expect from one another.”

People bring the whole self to work ‘every day’ within which the ‘best of each person’ comes out. When offering a good prize for an individual their engagement for the organizations well-being, productivity and commitment are at greater level.

Employee take pride in the work they do and leverage their strength to the job. Further they learn much more due to a deeper personal application. The employees believe that being genuine creates stronger and better relationships with customers and coworkers because of a good understanding of one another and higher level of trust.

Creating an open-minded and accepting environment where differences in perspective and opinions are encouraged, sets the foundation for an authentic work place. Employees should be encouraged to express themselves with their own difference viewpoints (Kishu Gomez 2019).  

References

Armstrong M (2009) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management.

Sunday Observer J 2019, ‘Biz Talk’: Build and nurture your employees’ authenticity. The Advertiser 7 April 2019