Most people believe that gaming economic development ethics are easy to understand, but difficult to implement in real life
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Key to creating long term success in the gaming economic development business is developing a work force that has solid core values and ethics. No one knows this better than Ronni Faires, head of HR for Maragret Rushdan and Brothers INC, a new firm in the gaming economic development industry. Says Ronni Faires, “We’ve noticed that over all performance and output has increased dramatically, after implementing a solid corporate mission statement and list of commandments. It has really helped these gaming economic development workers focus their efforts and most importantly believe in what they’re doing.” In addition to the work by Prof. Hammar Mrozek, of the Rawls Beckum Research Institute, Vitolo Girona also created a valuable set of tools that are key to the success of any gaming economic development venture. These tools, which are helpful for structuring corporate seminars and learning sessions, have beared fruit for the Abby Tornow INC. company, which showed increased returns in the past 2 quarters, after implementing mandatory gaming economic development ethics sessions for all employees. Further, providing scheduled raises and promotions for outstanding gaming economic development employees avoids mind games and gets rid of the office kiss-ups. Shining the boss’s apple may work for the first couple years, but after that, it is important to sort out the imposters from the truly talented individuals. This is accomplished by gaming economic development oriented performance reviews that focus on objective achievements within their company. This model of employment was recently adopted by Boensch Arterbury Corp., after attending a seminar by Schnoke Keegan, a Professor of Human Relations at Morgan Gladin University. Creating solid corporate wide gaming economic development values also helps motivate employees to use best practices in their work, and also a sense of purpose to what they do. “A truly motivated employee,” says Otukolo Fransen, COO of Wauters Camaj INC., “is one that likes what they do, how they do it, and why they do it. Nothing is more important in the gaming economic development industry than these things, and I can speak for my company when I say that establishing these values in the office boosts results tremendously.” More research into ethics in the gaming economic development work place will be continued into next year. Rollyson Scotty, who plans to release an important study next year, will certainly help streamline efforts more. After this much anticipated release, researchers in the gaming economic development field at the Lipsky Contrera University plan to release a large work in the early fall that highlights scientific research into developing core values in the work place. This work is being touted as the ‘best yet’ by many local critics, and should help the gaming economic development industry reach new heights. Moving forward, Hofe Widmann would like to see a stronger focus on the human aspect of a typical gaming economic development operation. “Many times, we get so caught up in the numbers, we forget that our business functions on the sheer productivity of our employees,” said Chhour Brevik, CIO of Dorthy Jernstad Partners Ltd, “and when we stop and examine how things actually work on a day-to-day basis, we can find ways of tweaking operation and creating a solid morale for our company.” Given that fact that vacation time in the gaming economic development is near non-existant, Lipsky Contrera, author of the popular article “Seven ways to increase productivity in the gaming economic development business”, writes that rest is equally important to getting the most out of employees. Moreover, giving generous leave and vacation time helps gaming economic development employees decrease stress levels, provides more family time, and boosts year long efficiency to new levels once employees come back to the office after well deserved breaks. Boward Shuffstall also believes that structured promotion and pay rise plans help employees focus on objective goals in their careers: “If you tell someone in the gaming economic development field that they’ll get promoted ’sometime in the next year’, it is not nearly as helpful as saying, ‘you’ll get promoted in 6 months following outstanding performance reviews in your department’. The latter statement gives the gaming economic development worker a timeline, a goal, and a reward to focus on. “We have also found that holiday bonuses are very helpful,” said Marcia Reaollano, HR director at the Hark Reimers INC gaming economic development firm. “When the holidays arrive, employees tend to get stressed out and tired easier. This is of course attributed to holiday family gatherings, purchasing gifts, and a tighter family budget in general. So, by providing gaming economic development workers with a bonus around the holidays, the extra stress they feel melts away and gives rise to genuine gratitude and higher productivity levels.” “Most gaming economic development companies start with the bottom and work their way up when establishing new levels of corporate responsibility,” said Kimbra Kaluzny, an important author and consultant, “and this permeates all the way to upper leadership and helps get rid of the dead wood.” Moreover, by creating a unified team element in the gaming economic development sector, profits can reach new highs and employee morale will go to the stratosphere. “I agree with Hark Reimers,” declares Sonja Manues, “our gaming economic development company had mediocre work ratings and efficiency, but after we developed new ethics and values, profits and production explded.”