Helping Others Leads to Better Productivity in Work Situations
- 11 years ago
A study reveals that helping others has a surprising impact in work situations.
Could giving your time and energy to help others be the answer to a satisfying work life?
According to several studies conducted by Professor Adam Grant from the Wharton school, when employees are shown how their work affects other people or are given an opportunity to help others, their productivity increases.
One study focused on a donation call center that provided scholarships to underprivileged students.
He brought in a scholarship recipient to talk to employees at the call center about how the money had helped him in his life.
The number of successful donation calls increased revenue for the call center by over 4 hundred percent.
Grant has spent his career helping people in any way he can, and he theorizes that helping others is a major driving force to get people to achieve in different ways.
Another study that Grant came up with posted signs at employee hand washing stations at a hospital.
One sign read: “Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases.”
The other said: “Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases.”
Then Grant measured the amount of soap used at each station and found that 45 percent more soap was used when the sign referred to the patients.
Could giving your time and energy to help others be the answer to a satisfying work life?
According to several studies conducted by Professor Adam Grant from the Wharton school, when employees are shown how their work affects other people or are given an opportunity to help others, their productivity increases.
One study focused on a donation call center that provided scholarships to underprivileged students.
He brought in a scholarship recipient to talk to employees at the call center about how the money had helped him in his life.
The number of successful donation calls increased revenue for the call center by over 4 hundred percent.
Grant has spent his career helping people in any way he can, and he theorizes that helping others is a major driving force to get people to achieve in different ways.
Another study that Grant came up with posted signs at employee hand washing stations at a hospital.
One sign read: “Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases.”
The other said: “Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases.”
Then Grant measured the amount of soap used at each station and found that 45 percent more soap was used when the sign referred to the patients.