Category: Articles
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…
