Employee expectations

Employee expectations are that an employee expects of an organization, team and role.Expectations are the basis for employee satisfaction or dissatisfaction.Generally speaking,employees are satisfied when exceptions are met. As such, firms may take care to manage employee expectations to improve engagement and productivity. The following are illustrative examples of employee expectations.

Onbording

The expectation that an employee will be provide with everything they need to do their job from the first day.An employee who is left to their own devices without assistance in navigating a new organization may quickly become disillusioned. for example, wasting days or weeks setting up access to systems. 

Hygiene Factors 

Hygiene Factors are basic expectations that do not increase satisfaction when they are met but create significant dissatisfy if they aren't met. A common example is an office that doesn't provide a basic water, tea and coffee service. This may cause significant angst for some employees.

Working Conditions

Working conditions such as teams of employment or controls that are used to monitor employees. for example, an employee who is accustomed to a relationship of trust with employers may be surprised by excessive monitoring and controls.

Responsibilities

It is common for the responsibilities of a role to differ from employee expectations. This can be due to a mismatch between the role description and the realities of the job. it can also be due to change or unrealistic expectations that an employee has developed based on outside information such as their previous responsibilities in a similar role.

Opportunity

Expectations related to opportunity such as the idea that a firm will promote from within as opposed to hiring external candidates for desirable.

Office Politics

need are about internal competition and behavior. an employee who is accustomed to a win environment where employees build upon each others successes may be surprised by a firm where everything is viewed as win - lose.

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