November 26
How to explain employee engagement
Top-performing organizations understand that employee engagement is a force that drives performance outcomes. In the best organizations, engagement is more than a human resources initiative – it is a strategic foundation for the way they do business.
Engaged employees are more productive, more profitable, more customer-focused, safer, and more likely to withstand temptations to leave. The best-performing companies know that an employee engagement improvement strategy linked to the achievement of corporate goals will help them win in the marketplace
But it is apparently still a topic that employers and employees alike think they understand, yet can’t articulate very easily:
Source: Dilbert
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I appreciate and agree with your post regarding employee engagement being strategic rather than isolated to HR. Here is a Blog written by 2 of my colleagues that supports your notion, yet takes it a step further. The Blog post asks the question “Is employee engagement grown or bred?” and makes the controversial point that genetic hard-wiring might be one of the most important variables in determining the level of engagement an employee will ever show. Here is the link http://bit.ly/5AY3Ub What do you think?
- Carl Eidson, VP Business Development, Wilson Learning Corporation
http://www.wilsonlearning-americas.com
Great stuff!! Very thorough and detailed.
As an HR Manager here in North Carolina,I’ve been doing a lot of re-thinking of the way we have been doing performance recognition, which I believe is an important part of engagement.
This blog (and many others) are filled with great ideas and thoughts and quotes, and I wanted to be able to share these with the employees at my company. So when it’s time to recognize someone for their performance, I take one of these quotes from my (long) list, and instead of giving them a standard old plaque, I put the quote on a DYI –Design Your Inspiration from Successories. They are very handsomely framed and the photo choices are very good. It’s made employee recognition much more meaningful AND appreciated. The website is http://www.dyi.successories.com Thanks again. Anne