Key Factors Influencing Employee Passion

<p><em>There are 12 main ways in which the workplace environment can impact engagement.</em></p><ul><li>Meaningful work: Employees perceive the organization&rsquo;s larger purpose through products or services produced, consider their work to be worthwhile and are proud of their individual actions and contributions that help the organization serve its customers. </li><li>Collaboration: The organizational environment and culture enhances collaboration, cooperation and encouragement between all organizational members. </li><li>Autonomy: Employees have the tools, training, support and authority to make decisions. </li><li>Growth: Employees have opportunities to learn, grow professionally and develop skills that lead to advancement and career growth. </li><li>Task variety: Employees&rsquo; individual job roles have the right level of challenge, complexity and variety. </li><li>Performance expectations: Employees have clear indicators of what is expected of them and how they will be evaluated. </li><li>Feedback: Employees receive timely, relevant and specific information on how they are performing. </li><li>Workload: Employees&rsquo; workload is reasonably proportioned for the time they have to accomplish it. </li><li>Distributive fairness: Pay, benefits, resources and workload are fair, balanced and equitable; people treat each other with respect; and leaders act in an ethical manner. </li><li>Procedural fairness: Policies, procedures and decisions are reached in a fair and impartial manner. </li><li>Connectedness with leadership: Employees trust their leaders and their leaders make an effort to form an interpersonal connection with them. </li><li>Connectedness with colleagues: Employees trust their colleagues and their colleagues make an effort to form an interpersonal connection with them. </li></ul>