1. Top Ten Employee
Complaints

2. Higher salaries
Employees seek
change in salaries
You can foster a
work environment
in which employees
feel comfortable
asking for a raise

3. Internal pay
equity
 Employees are
concerned
particularly with
pay compression
In organizations, with the average annual pay increase for
employees around 4%, employees perceive that
newcomers are better paid – and, often, they are.

4. Benefits programs, particularly health and dental
insurance, retirement, and Paid Time Off / vacation
days
 Many employees feel
that their health insurance
costs too much, especially
prescription drug programs

5. Over-
management
 Workplaces that
foster employee
empowerment,
employee
enablement will
see fewer
complaints

6. Pay increase guidelines for
merit
As you adopt a merit pay system, one
component is education so that employees
know what behaviors and contributions
merit additional compensation
Employees find pay systems in
which all employees receive the
same pay increase annually,
demoralizing. Such pay systems hit
the motivation and commitment of
your best employees hard

7. Human Resources department response
to employees
In forward thinking HR departments, responsiveness to employee
needs is one of the cornerstones

8. Favoritism
 Employees want fair
treatment
 Employees want
that each employee
is treated
equivalently with
other employees

9. Communication and
availability
Employees want
face-to-face
communication time
with both their
supervisors and
executive
management
A manager’s main
job is to support the
success of all his or
her reporting
employees.

10. Workloads are
too heavy
 Understaffed
Departments
 heavy workloads
 time is spread too thinly
To combat this, each
company should help
employees participate in
continuous improvement
activities

11. Facility
cleanliness
a clean, organized work
environment
the necessary equipment