Category: Articles
Successful Businesses Engender Higher Employee Engagement Scores, Not The Other Way Around
Business Metrics And Employee Engagement: We Have It Backwards In the previous article we explained that employee engagement might cause better business results, but that one alternate explanation of the research findings is that BOTH are affected by another cause, and…
Diverting Scarce Resources To Employee Engagement A Huge Mistake For Companies
Darkside Of Employee Engagement Since companies have completely failed to improve employee engagement scores over ten+ years of trying, we need to consider whether continuing to divert scarce organizational resources in an attempt to increase employee engagement with the hope…
How Has Employee Engagement (EE) Become So Popular And Why Are Companies Spending So Much Money? Is It A Fad?
Why So Many People Are Talking About Employee Engagement: It MUST Be Valuable? Employee engagement is probably NOT a fad, in the sense that it will “go away” and be forgotten, so let’s get that out of the way. But…
The Small Business Landscape and the Challenge of Competing with Giants
1. Introduction: Small businesses often find themselves in a David versus Goliath scenario, pitted against large corporations with vast resources and established market dominance. However, in today’s dynamic business environment, small businesses have the potential to not only survive but…
Humor at Work: Functions, Outcomes, Dangers
1. Introduction: The Role and Impact of Workplace Humor Workplace humor is a common aspect of many professional environments, often seen as a way to alleviate stress, foster camaraderie, and enhance overall workplace satisfaction. However, while humor can be a…
The Tyranny of Middle Class Values and How Some Think About Work
Employee Engagement? Who Cares! I wrote on the human resources discussion list, a short piece that was stimulated by one consultant’s praise for the employment engagement concept, one that, by the way, I abhor for a number of reasons. The…
