by Barb Blashki

Employees care about their job titles.

The job titles that you give your employees will greatly affect how they see themselves – and how others see and treat them too. Get their titles right and what follows is increased self-esteem, job satisfaction and productivity. Getting them wrong can have a dire effect - on your employees and on your business.

Recently I read an article, in The Age newspaper here in Melbourne, entitled “Job title inflation”. It wasn’t a particularly good article but it did get me thinking about how most small business employers and managers continue to underestimate the importance that we place on our job titles.