Three ways to integrate fun into your organization

Traditionally, with the exception of organizational cultures of the likes of Disney and Southwest Airlines, jobs are typically not regarded as “fun”. In fact, many organizations may view fun as having a negative relationship with productivity and organizational effectiveness. Despite this common perspective, there is increasing evidence that having fun at work may have a positive effect on many individual and organizational outcomes (see The Levity Effect: Why it Pays to Lighten Up).

TLNT Magazine argued for the importance of a job’s level of fun (i.e., it’s FQ—Fun Quotient) in attracting talent. In this same vein, they highlighted three ways to fuse fun into your workplace, one of which is rotaSHUN (rotation):

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Boredom is the archenemy of the millennial mindset and a total fun killer. Give ‘em the exact same tasks today as they performed yesterday, and they’re one step closer to being bored out of their gourd and completely disengaging. An easy way to increase the fun quotient in any job is to provide frequent opportunities to learn new tasks, or to perform routine tasks in a fresh, new way. The axiom ‘there’s more than one way to skin a cat’ applies here. If you can stimulate their creativity or imagination, they’ll reengage and enjoy the experience more. So remember to rotate mundane job assignments, even if it means that you include a few of your own tasks in the rotation.

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Other strategies include competiSHUN (competition) and interacSHUN (interaction).

The full article is available on TLNT.com.

How do you fuse fun into your workplace?