Giving your staff a tour holiday as a staff incentive has advantages over merely giving bonuses to your employees. In order to retain good employees, most companies give bonuses to their employees. But is it enough to make the employees happy? Why do employees still leave the company? It is because what given is not expected, and it can never be enough to satiate their wants.
It is human nature to always expect higher because they thought they have helped their company to earn good profits and have done so much for their bosses. Therefore, organizing a group tour or family day for your employees will provide a different perspective and results. It projects the company as more considerate and caring for their employees. It also helps to create bonding among employees and between the company and its employees.
The purpose to provide bonuses to employees is to make them happy. However, based on Dermatoglyphics (the scientific study of fingerprints), more than 50% of the populations are emotional. They are not only rewarded by monetary gains, but also rewarded by feeling good towards the company or organization. Therefore, creating feel good holiday moods for the employees by organizing a group tour could increase the satisfaction of your employees. After all, most people get happy and excited to go on a holiday.
Furthermore, a company trip helps the employees to release their stress. In the daily jobs, routine job descriptions, close-up environment, communications problems and office politics have created a lot of stress besides the heavy workload. An annual company tour is a good option as part of the office stress management system.
Many employees are facing and communicating only with computers and even machines in their daily work. Doing these mundane routine jobs may cause boredom in the workplace and stress in the workplace. If not handled properly, they carry these tensions back to their homes and affect their family members, destroying the joy and warmth of their family life. Many companies have been wise to invite their employees' families to join the company tour or family day to relax together, and to understand and appreciate the contributions and achievements of their spouse in the company.
Enhancing interpersonal communication skills and communication chances between employees is another good reason for organizing company tour. Many employees been sitting opposite or next to each other for many years but they seldom have the opportunity to talk or chat (communicate with each other), due to their daily heavy and routine work, especially in the factory production scenario. When traveling in a group, they would have the opportunity to stay together, and interact in games like telematches, treasure hunts or team building activities. More verbal communications can reduce misunderstanding in the workplace created by nonverbal communication.
Lastly, group traveling helps to broaden employees horizon. Many employees seldom travel outside their hometown due to budget constraints. Although the company paid them bonuses but they will still save the money. A company tour will help to get them out from their comfort zone and visit interesting places and widen their horizons. It could also help to increase their knowledge and ability in communicating with customers, when they have better knowledge.
So, if you are in Human Resource Department (HR Department or Personnel Department), or you a boss who wants to achieve the above, start planning today. Early planning helps to save money on hotel booking and to reduce hick-up during the tour due to enough time for preparations.
George ONG is the Master Travel & Tour Planner of EIGHTY-EIGHT HOLIDAYS (M) SDN BHD (88Holidays). As one of the top group tour company in Malaysia, 88Holidays is specialized in organizing group tour, meeting and training packages, conferences & conventions, tele-match and treasure hunt, team building workshops, company dinner & etc for companies & factories! The only testimonial 88Holidays is proud of is its repeating corporate clients who let this trusted tour operator organizes their company tours in Malaysia and even overseas years after years.
If you are planning for company's events, activities and company tours within or outside Malaysia, it is best to first contact 88Holidays at General@88Holidays.com or Malaysia hotline 1-700-80-1388. To view its clients' activities or group photos, please go to http://www.88Holidays.com.
