The Benefits of Managing Openly

To be a successful manager, you must create an atmosphere that encourages open communication so that individuals feel invested in the organization's success. Read this article to learn how open communication improves employee engagement, which leads to greater job satisfaction, reduced stress, loyalty, and mutual respect throughout the organization.

The benefits of managing openly

Employee engagement is critical in high-performing organizations. But do we really understand what makes people feel committed to their work?



Discussions about open values in the workplace often focus on leaders creating high-level strategies and visions for their teams and organizations. But a unique set of leaders, managers, bears additional responsibilities, such as generating business performance, creating work environments, representing the larger organization to the associate, and coordinating day-to-day operations - and they do this through their relationships with employees. Managerial relationships are integral to the employee experience, because they have a direct impact on retention, meaningful work, social support, and more. So managers need to be especially aware of the values and principles that guide their practice. To highlight this special kind of leader, the Open Organization community is creating a special article series, "Managing with Open Values".

In the next few articles, we'll investigate different perspectives on what it means to "manage according to open values". We'll explore the importance of doing it and ask experts for their practical ideas on actually doing it.

But first, we'll take a look at why you'd want to let open principles guide your management practices in the first place. For that, we begin with the end in mind: Employee engagement.

Source: Tracy Giuliani, https://opensource.com/open-organization/20/5/commitment-engagement-org-psychology
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