Improving Communication Between Management and Employees

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Research Report #1 Improving Communication between Management and Employees Megan Widor In our industry, communicating with your employees can be difficult. Understanding their needs and actually solving problems can be difficult if the employees do not communicate with the managers. Improving communication between management and employees can help your business succeed and in our industry today, communication is the key. Communication is the core to success in any relationship. Communication between the guest at your restaurant and the server will give the guest the successful experience they want. That also goes for the employees and managers. Bad communication starts when there is no communication at all between management and employees, which establishes significant problems. As a result, to no communication, conflict arises and problems remain unsolved because of the difficulty of communication. Both managers and employees can do some simple things to change the lack of communication. The first thing you could do to better communication between managers and employees is to create an atmosphere that promotes open communication. This encourages employees to speak up and exchange ideas. Having this opportunity for employees to share ideas helps them open up more and share what they think they can do to help the business grow. Open communication also opens up the opportunity for back and front of the house to communicate. Being able to address problems to each other and sort them out will help the restaurant run more smoothly. Another policy you can create that will open the door to better communication is the “open door” policy. This is a definitive way to improve communication. Managers create this “open door” policy where they welcome any thoughts, suggestions, comments, and complaints from employees. Having this policy encourages employees to share

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