POD is a small company that executes and develops all projects in collaboration with different specialized companies in the sector. POD provides a very personal service based on previous detailed studies according to the client’s needs, always focused on a high professional level.

The construction sector is known for having workers who require good physical condition, but as the years go by and the physical condition deteriorates the worker usually feels less fit. The POD gets experienced workers to do more technical and creative work within the company and thus encourage the self-acceptance of the older worker. Intrinsic motivation is nothing more or less than finding meaning in what they do internally, it is a way of giving value to their work and to the employee.

Javier Gil, manager of POD, always tries to make the employee feel like an active part of the company, communicating with the workers, giving them feedback, informing them of their needs, etc. This favours the birth of new strategies and favours communication in the broadest sense of the word. It is in these environments that the most creative ideas are born and there is no doubt that the older worker can always contribute many ideas through experience. Therefore, it is necessary to make the employee feel useful, making him/her feel part of the management and giving him/her prominence and weight, thus encouraging his/her intrinsic motivation and feeling of belonging to the company.

Javier Gil is very aware of the difficulty that older workers have in companies related to the construction sector, where he has seen how people close to his family found themselves being made redundant when they were older, as they were no longer “useful” for working in the construction industry. For this reason, and in order to have a socially committed company, he has tried to create a balance between the self-motivation of each older worker to grow and fulfil themselves and the external factors that can have a positive influence on reinforcing this motivation. For Javier Gil, the experience has made it clear to him that human resources and the treatment of employees is one of the fundamental pillars of the company, and that this has an impact on the company’s objectives.

• Employees will work harder when they see that the company’s management is interested in their well-being.
• When an employee develops a sense of belonging to the company and feels motivated at work, he or she will perform better.
• Positive work climate in which the employee feels at ease.
• The employee will create a feeling of belonging to the company.
• Stimulates employees to want to achieve their goals and to comply with a strategy of which they feel a fundamental part.
• Self-realisation and personal growth of employees in POD.

All these are the keys that consist of having the “senior colleague as an advisor”. In order to achieve this within the company, it must be given weight to encouraging workers to be motivated and to value the senior colleague in front of the team.

Self-motivation.

Integration, commitment to the development of social and personal autonomy skills.