Top Ten Employee Complaints

Higher salariesEmployees seek change in salaries

You can foster a work environment in which employees feel comfortable asking for a raise

Internal pay equity

Employees are concerned particularly with pay compression

In organizations, with the average annual pay increase for employees around 4%, employees perceive that newcomers are better paid – and, often, they are.

Benefits programs, particularly health and dental insurance, retirement, and Paid Time Off / vacation

days Many employees feel that their health insurance costs too much, especially prescription drug programs

Over-management

Workplaces that foster employee empowerment, employee enablement will see fewer complaints

Pay increase guidelines for merit

As you adopt a merit pay system, one component is education so that employees

know what behaviors and contributions merit additional compensation

Employees find pay systems in which all employees receive the same pay increase annually, demoralizing. Such pay systems hit the motivation and commitment of your best employees hard

Human Resources department response to employees

In forward thinking HR departments, responsiveness to employee needs is one of the cornerstones

Favoritism Employees want fair treatment

Employees want that each employee

is treated equivalently with other employees

Communication and availability

Employees want face-to-face

communication time with both their supervisors and

executive management

A manager’s main job is to support the success of all his or

her reporting employees.

Workloads are too heavy

Understaffed Departments

heavy workloads time is spread too thinly

To combat this, each company should help

employees participate in continuous improvement

activities

Facility cleanliness

a clean, organized work environment

the necessary equipment