The motivation of employees can suffer in the recession. When the organization does not communicate troubles and new initiatives honestly and openly, the employees feel separated from the organization and their motivation can disappear quickly.
The motivation is very sensitive component of the employees’ behavior; the employees have to feel the comfort of the sufficient supply of information. The employees have to understand the general situation of the company, the forecast of the future and other important information for the personal decisions of employees.
The top management usually does not want to worry the employees with the information about the real status of the organization in the recession, but the employees have the internal and informal networks and they connect information from different units.
The motivation is very dependent on the information received as the part of the motivation is the clear knowledge of the personal future in the organization. The worst damage to the motivation is about lies of the management about the real situation of the organization. The employees are smart and they are able to find the real information as the employees can connect the numbers from different parts of the organization pretty quickly.
The HRM Function has to work very carefully with the motivation of employees in the recession. The organization without motivated employees has no chance to survive the recession successfully.
