As companies grow, it’s increasingly important for employees to effectively collaborate and communicate in real-time with reliable tools. Tools to manage business processes have the power to encourage efficiency and job satisfaction. They impact the way employees feel about their role in the workplace—either creating a sense of efficacy or inspiring the behaviors of learned helplessness.
Effective work tools can empower and motivate employees to perform at their best, rather than simply punch a clock. A growing trend among businesses is the creation of a digital culture that enables employees to conduct work with emerging technologies.
When a team has the right tools, they can complete their assignments with accuracy and meet deadlines without friction. When you’re focused on a task, rather than the tools you’re using to conduct it, you simply work faster.
Getting things done on mobile devices has been commonplace in the US since 2008. However, outside of the consumer space, many employees still experience bottlenecks in their work flows that impact their confidence and sense of job ownership.
How to Prepare for Future Workforces
When an employee is hired, candidates are often filtered on the basis of their previous work experiences. The tools they know how to use are considered during a hiring process. However, business strategies change on a quarterly basis. New technologies emerge at an equally rapid pace, inspiring businesses to consider new ways of conducting business. How do you hire employees to use tools that haven’t been invented? Do you hire based on their domain expertise? Their capacity to learn?
Hiring someone based on the detailed nuances that go into each job function is the way to go. Design thinking is increasingly prevalent at technology companies in the US, because it helps people solve complex problems with practical, action-oriented solutions. Fascinating new tools are emerging that bolster a businesses’ ability to drive cross-functional team collaboration.
How to Stimulate Productivity
A business with the latest technology for streamlining tasks enables a high level of performance, which can enhance employee confidence and self perceptions of value. Who wouldn’t want to feel like an industry leader on the forefront of innovation? Creating goals, and having the right tools to reach those goals creates a sense of purpose within a team, and a higher level of satisfaction and production on a job site. But when technology gets in the way of your productivity, that creates stress.
Why Low-Code App Development Platforms Enhance Reliability and Reduce Stress
When employees rely heavily on specialized tools to do their jobs, it’s important these tools are fast and reliable. If every time you tried to send an email your browser shuts down, it would be frustrating. Over time, this persistent failure to succeed would lead to feelings of anger, frustration, and possibly a learned helplessness. These are a major threats to an employee’s stress levels and sense of efficacy.
Many companies are finding that a no-code application platform can help them create a digital culture in which employees can focus on what they’re doing, rather than how they’re doing it. No-code application development is proving to be a reliable tool, because it can help teams modify how they do work as things change. It empowers business leaders to change the work flows that employees use to achieve business goals in real time. They can rapidly respond to shifts in marketplaces, technologies, workforces or regulations.
This reduces stress normally associated with staying in compliance, and meeting deadlines and goals—without the use of an IT department. It allows employees to:
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work reliably on mobile phones or tablets
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work wherever they are most productive, as they are no longer confined to their desks
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gain access to digital resources in the cloud
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get things done faster
A no-code app development platform empowers business leaders to redesign business processes, aka workflows, based on data. This enables them to:
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visually change any part of a business process without calling IT
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provide custom user experiences that guide employees through best practices
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experiment with new workflows to drive progress on goals, such as engagement
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create dynamic reports that display how all lines of business are performing in real time
They don’t have to manually code anything to build effective enterprise software solutions that facilitate best practices and business process improvement. Companies that lack such tools and use antiquated, scattered technology, such as paper and spreadsheets, deny their employees the opportunity to perform at their peak. The tools used at work play a tremendous role in how employees feel about the work they do.
Tools in Highly Regulated Environments
In some industries that are highly regulated, compliance regulations can be seen as a necessary evil. But they don’t have to be. Businesses can use no-code application development platforms to design workflows that help employees easily comply with regulations, internal audits, and more. Regulating agencies impose significant fines for businesses that are not in compliance, which can get expensive. Furthermore, generating the reports and audits is not the most exciting work, which affects the way employees feel on the job. Automatically generating reports seems like a no brainer. But not everyone has been exposed to the idea that this is possible.
Having access to digital tools while traveling between job sites, can make employees happier. It can make them feel more free to be productive. Notably, digital business process management tools reduce operating costs. This makes bosses happy.
Digital, mobile business process management tools reduce the stress that’s normally associated with highly-regulated job assignments.
Impact on Job Satisfaction and a Sense of Efficacy
When employees use tools that enable them to successfully complete job assignments without friction, this impacts how they feel about their work. Being forced to use tools that are buggy or leash you to a desk can be quite stressful. Digitizing operations gives business leaders the freedom to change at the pace of their imagination. It also helps them create digital cultures in which people don’t have to think about how they do work; they simply focus on getting that work done. Check out this example of a real Pulpstream client utilizing our no-code software to improve inspection processes, ensure compliance, and, ultimately, cut costs!
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