A new book, Employee Engagement: A Roadmap for Creating Profits, Optimizing Performance, sounds like a great investment for anyone who needs to boost engagement in the workplace (which, these days, is pretty much everyone). The author Brad Federman takes the position that the solution to today’s economic problem is properly investing in employees, and that recruiting [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Book offers framework for engagement success
Posted in Employee Engagement on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The missing ingredient
Posted in Employee Engagement, tagged Engagement on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dunder Mifflin, a great place to work! Anybody? Show of hands, anybody want to intern at Dunder Mifflin. We do not offer college credit, we can not give you any sort of pay, but it is a really fun work environment. Anybody? Show of hands? Dammit. Ok. I’m gonna wrap it up here. Thank you, [...]
Levels of engagement
Posted in Employee Engagement on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a great article today by Mitch McCrimmon on the Management-Issues website. What I appreciated most about the author’s approach is that he separated engagement into four distinct levels. I think this is an important way to view engagement, and one that management should take a moment to consider. I suspect a number of [...]
HR vs. IC?
Posted in Employee Engagement, tagged Engagement, internal communications on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Watson Wyatt apparently agrees with my point that employee engagement is not solely the responsibility of the HR department. In a recent study, the consulting firm showed that companies with effective internal communication programs are better positioned to keep employees engaged and retain key talent. I won’t bore you with the statistics here, but I thought this [...]
When surveys meet strategy
Posted in Employee Engagement, Employee Surveys, tagged Engagement, internal communications on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Almost everything I’ve read or written about employee engagement to this point has referenced multiple surveys—and they all say pretty much the same thing. Most companies suffer from an engagement deficit, and it doesn’t take a genius to intuit that the current economic crisis is not helping matters. But I find that the constant focus [...]
On the value of engagement
Posted in Employee Engagement, Research on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I skipped rather quickly over the definition of engagement in my last post, so I’d like to step back for a minute to review this concept in more detail, and particularly its business value. Generally speaking, engaged employees are passionate employees. They understand and are committed to their company’s mission, vision, and values. They recognize [...]
Are you engaged?
Posted in CSR, Employee Engagement, tagged Engagement on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a recent study of nearly 30,000 employees around the world, Right Management concluded that commitment to an employer’s core values is the top driver of employee engagement. If that’s the case, it would seem that companies who adopt and promote CSR within an organization are on the right track. But beyond values, there are [...]
