A manager’s job at work is to supervise its employees intensively. The goal is, so that employees are working according to the standards which are already specified by the company. For that, the managers must be able to motivate them.
But it’s easy to say, but difficult to apply. Motivation as a theory is not a simple thing to apply because it involves a variety of disciplines. Failure in motivating could happen due to the weakness in communicating with employees, among others, it is reflected by the attitude of the managers.
Manager’s attitude in communicating, including attitudes toward himself and attitudes toward the other person, the attitude toward the content (message content) and the control over the content which is being delivered, as well as the level of knowledge of the employees as the recipients of the message.
The manager should have a better knowledge that the employee or understand what is already known by the employees in order to determine the effective way of delivering the messages and also to determine the content that still needs to be conveyed. Consideration of all these matter would help manager to deliver messages that are understandable and understood by employees.
If not, communication activities are more likely to be failed. Many communication activities are becoming unpleasant only because the parties that are communicating, in this case the employee, do not understand what is meant by the manager. As a result the employees as recipients of the message is not or less motivated.