Tag: employee engagement
Why Companies Can’t Prove The Value Of Employee Engagement
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 strategies, in terms of business results, assessing different channels,…
Producing Hassle-Hunters – Every Employee A Quality Specialist
Want Employee “Engagement”? Start With Hassle Hunting, A Value Added Process Contrary to what many executives think, the information essential to improved productivity and efficiency does not reside in the executive suite, but in the minds of the people who…
Companies NEED To Stop Measuring Employee Engagement With Surveys
When Measuring Employee Engagement Lowers It You’ve probably heard the phrase “What gets measured gets done” applied to the the workplace, and if you are like many people, you have a belief that using metrics to gauge progress towards any…
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…
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Over the years I’ve authored literally hundreds of articles on a variety of topics from finding a therapist to improving employee engagement. It’s a bit hard to find things because of the volume of material, so here’s what is available…
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…
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…
