Amplification for job satisfaction
Every entrepreneur wants good, motivated and healthy employees. Especially in the current tight labor market, there is plenty of attention for “human capital”. Amplition, or improvement or reinforcement, contributes to people's happiness and job satisfaction. There are plenty of opportunities here for employers.
Positive strategy for sustainable employability
Looking at the concept of 'absenteeism', there are three phases, says Jurgen van der Poll, risk advisor for sustainable employability at Amplio Verzuimexperts. “The most well-known is the curation phase, the phase of treatment and recovery during and after illness. As an employer, you have various reintegration obligations and the occupational health service and company doctor also play a role in this phase. That's what the prevention phase is for: preventing illness and failure. This phase includes, for example, the RI&E, the Risk Inventory & Evaluation. Mandatory for employers, but it is sometimes forgotten. Amplition is the phase before that. In this phase, the goal is for employees to go to work whistling and to return home whistling after a working day.”
Four pillars
Amplitie has four pillars, says Jurgen: talent management, enthusiasm, health and organization of the work environment and place. “As an entrepreneur, of course, you don't have all the influence on the health of your people. And enthusiasm has to do with intrinsic motivation, or better: leads to that. That's something that's inside the person, but what you, as an employer, can encourage.”
Consultation
“Of course, the employer has an important role to play when it comes to talent management,” Jurgen continues. “An employee can't do everything and doesn't have to be able to do everything. For example, if someone is an excellent salesperson but less good at administration, you can facilitate them and link them to someone who is actually very good at it. And the design of the workplace and environment is, of course, an excellent thing that you manage as an employer, in consultation with your employees, of course.”
Positive approach
Amplition is about a positive approach, emphasises Jurgen. “And for physical and psychological well-being. Offer employees the opportunity to grow and, for example, set up an individual talent development plan with them. Integrate amplification into policy and pay constant attention to it. Of course, that does require discipline.” Amplification starts when you want to do well even during the application process, says Jurgen. “The familiar right person in the equally familiar right place. Does anyone fit in with the company, the team, and the culture?”
Insurers
Insurers and health services are also enthusiastic about the rise of amplification, says Jurgen. “Understandable, because they are also doing everything they can to prevent absenteeism. If people can be deployed sustainably, this saves absenteeism and thus benefit costs. As an employer, you can achieve that by doing everything you can to make them feel good about themselves.”
Focus on health
Amplition comes from the Latin 'Amplio', which means to improve or strengthen. The English 'Amplify' also comes from there. The term has its origins in organizational psychology and has become increasingly popular in the HR world in recent years. Amplitie focuses on promoting employee health instead of prevention and recovery. “I call that a step forward to increase job satisfaction,” says risk advisor Jurgen van der Poll.