Non-wage motivation, i.e. what – how to encourage an employee to try

We work for this to earn. However, it is not only money that counts at work. The staff will be more involved in performing the tasks entrusted to them, not only when the remuneration is decent. There is also a non-wage incentive.

When Poland joined the European Union in 2004, Poles began to emigrate to the West almost en masse. All with one goal: to earn there, because with us – as they claimed – despite our will, it is impossible. At that time, our employers did not note any staffing problems, although many compatriots left at that time for food, e.g. to the British Isles. If the company was looking for people to work, it found them.

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Only now, after a dozen or so years, has the employee market come. And there was a problem. More and more domestic employers are struggling to find suitable candidates for vacancies. It happens that months pass and the search results are nonexistent. There is no doubt that the greatest incentive to attract and retain an employee is high pay. Almost 90 percent of employees think so. It is not only a satisfactory salary that motivates the employee to continue. Non-wage motivation, i.e. other than finance, is also important nowadays. And it is not about a company car, a company laptop or a mobile phone paid for by the employer every month.

Salary and non-wage incentive

It is said that non-wage motivation is more effective than money motivation. This is because the wage motivation means that the employee is employed at a given time, i.e. when he gets a high salary, he engages in the performance of his official duties. If suddenly such a high salary were to be reduced for him, the employee would have no motivation at all, or he would have a very low one. Non-wage motivation, on the other hand, is to make the interested party believe that what he is doing is important and necessary.

Training

Courses, postgraduate studies or other activities paid for by the boss and increasing the qualifications of participants are one of the non-financial ways of motivating. When an employee participates in training or continues his education at school or university, his self-esteem increases. Likewise, his chances of being promoted in the company or outside on the labor market increase. If you are better qualified you also have more job opportunities.

Insurance

Additional insurances, where the contributions are paid by the employer, can also motivate. These may be extra health insurance, under which the employee (and sometimes his family) can visit private specialist doctors for free. The company sometimes buys out additional life insurance for its crew, and even travel insurance, when the employee goes on a private vacation, the company provides him with such a special package. Moreover, the so-called medical subscriptions. An employee does not have to wait for months, sometimes even years, for advice from a specialist who is under a contract with the National Health Fund. However, he can go to a selected clinic or clinic, which – under the contract signed with the employee’s employer – will quickly see the patient and will not charge the patient a zloty for the visit.

Holiday subsidy

If an employee goes on vacation in Poland or abroad, he can count on a trip or departure subsidy for himself and his family. Selected companies finance up to half of the expenses incurred by the subordinate or his family in connection with travel (or possibly flight) and accommodation.

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Passes, tickets and vouchers

A ticket to a gym, a fitness club, a spa or a massage parlor can encourage an employee to act as well as tickets (invitations) to a cinema, theater or other cultural institution. Vouchers more and more often take the form of gift cards, handed over to the team at the company from holidays, literally. They, too, are an incentive to work better, more efficiently. Especially when you can spend a lot of money on private purchases.

Integration trips

People from the company get to know each other better if they spend some time together outside the company. Integration trips or outings actually integrate the team. Subordinates in an unusual environment for them, because outside work, thanks to the trip to which the employer has invited them, they can look at each other in a different way than before. When they spend time with each other, they get to know each other. They will not only recharge their batteries during a trip together, but when they return to work, they will do better, work easier, and at the same time the atmosphere will improve.

Childcare

Flexible working hours are one thing, but when parents are at work, their children must be looked after. The employer can also provide it. More and more enterprises, especially those that employ young people, open in their areas, for example, mini-nurseries, kindergarten points and toddler clubs. They are attended by employees’ children. In such a situation, parents usually only pay a partial payment for the stay and food of their children, and sometimes they do not have to pay any fees, because everything is financed by the employer.