Live them alone and guide them when ever it is required should be the mantra of a manager for achieving good results. Other wise you will be spoiling them by pushing them all the time. The results will be bad .
Higher level of autonomy at workplace has a positive effect on employees’ wellbeing and gives them job satisfaction, according to a research.
“The positive effects associated with informal flexibility and working at home, offer further support to the suggestion that schedule control is highly valued and important to ,” he said.
The research also highlighted that despite the reported increased levels of well-being, in many cases managers remain unwilling to offer employees greater levels of autonomy and the associated benefits.
The study found ‘compelling’ evidence to suggest that men and women were affected in different ways by the type of autonomy they experienced.
Researchers at the University of Birmingham Business School examined the changes in reported wellbeing relative to levels of autonomy using two separate years of data for 20,000 employees from the Understanding Society survey.
The research, published in the journal Work and Occupations, found that levels of autonomy differed considerably between occupations and by gender.
Those working in management reported the highest levels of autonomy in their work, with 90% reporting ‘some’ or ‘a lot’ of autonomy in the workplace.
