Category: Employee Engagement
Creating An Environment Where Employees Can Find Meaning In Their Work
How To Avoid Dangling Employees The second of the twelve Gallup questions that ties into employee engagement is: Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important? It’s no surprise that this is on the list. You already know…
Multiple Meanings For Employee Engagement A Serious Problem
Stripping The Jargon Away From Employee Engagement Unless you read research journals that are often not available for free online, you’ll probably be surprised that there is no single, common definition of “employee engagement”. That’s one of the criticisms quietly…
Herzberg Applied To Employee Engagement Explains Why Companies Can’t Raise Employee Engagement
Why It’s Easier To Destroy Employee Engagement Than Improve It In the late 1950’s and 1960’s, psychologist Frederick Herzberg suggested and researched a rather simple, and common sense like explanation about what motivates and demotivates people at work. Herzberg can be…
Employee Engagement Affected By Literally Hundreds Of “Microfactors”
Why Companies Haven’t Succeeded In Improving Employee Engagement While we’ve stated that organizations are not in control of many of the factors that affect employees’ desire to work hard for a company, it’s obvious that there are still factors under…
How To Create An Employee’s Sense They Do Meaningful and Important Work: Start With Expectations
Meaningful Work Requires Employees Know What’s Expected We’ve known all along that employees who believe their work is important, and know what is expected of them will tend to be much better employees than their confused brethren. How do you…
How Employee Engagement Attempts Backfire And Have The Opposite Effect
Why Employee Engagement Efforts Return Zero Results Or Worse Unfortunately, efforts to improve employee engagement can easily backfire, either ending up, on balance, with a few people improving, many people staying the same, and some people actually getting less engaged….
The Bullshit Factor: The Claims Of Correlation Between Higher Employee Engagement And Stock Prices
Relationship Between Employee Engagement Scores And Stock Prices You may have come across research that looked at the relationship between stock prices and employee engagement scores. If you analyze the data just right, what you can get is a positive…
Making Sense Of The Research That Looks At The Relationship Between Employee Engagement And Business Outcomes
Employee Engagement And Business Success? Over the last years, various research companies have published research reports and white papers “proving” there is a relationship between higher levels of employee engagement and various business indicators, like revenue, profits, and even stock…
The Biggest Determinants Of Employee Effort Are Beyond The Control Of Employers
Companies Don’t Have It Within Their Power To Increase Employee Engagement and Employee Effort One of the assumptions underlying company efforts to improve employee engagement is that the company is in control of the factors that will increase it. After…
Fundamental Confusion: Employee Engagement As Means, Or As Ends
Confusion About Employee Engagement As Tool Or As Goal One of the criticisms leveled at the employee engagement movement is that when companies forge ahead at attempting to improve engagement, they forget that employee engagement is not the important goal….
Impossible To Assess The Value Of Employee Engagement Efforts
Companies Unable To Evaluate Success of Employee Engagement Efforts In a perfect world, it would be important for companies that invest in anything to be able to evaluate whether that investment returns value to the company. Companies evaluate their marketing…
