Employee Engagement for Small IT Organization

[Sujeet Kumar]

Hi

I have started our employee engagement initiative recently. We have total 135 people in our organization and most of the people are at Sr. Consultant and consultant level.
Currently I am working on following area as part of our engagement initiative:

Training & Development
Career Development
Improving Performance Management Systems
Regular communication between HR team and Employee
Job Satisfaction
Work-life balance
Equal Opportunity

I would like to know what you all are doing in employee engagement.

[David Zinger]

Sujeet:
This is a good question with over 800 members. I encourage you to visit the pages of the people who are profiled and the pages of some others. As you read their pages it will tell you about people ranging from Vice Presidents of large health care organizations to consultants in large consulting firms to authors and bloggers to people who supervise a small staff to people trying to ignite their own engagement. We are a very diverse network.
David

[Patty Jones]

Hi Sujeet!

I agree with David that there are a wide-ranging insights available thru the members here, some with broad-sweeping EE initiatives and some with very targeted niche expertise. I'm excited at the breadth of skills and knowledge and the willingness to share and make a difference - that's what I see among this group.

I've been putting off completing my bio - I'll get that out there for everyone so that they understand my background and capabilities too! (Big4 OD Consulting, Independent OD/Business Consultant, Director of OD within financial services). I also had a prior life as a DBA, developer, project manager, and IT/Business Liaison.

First, my experiences have been to understand the needs of the organization. I'm curious as to how you arrived at the list. Focus groups? Also, is your organization and the workforce relatively new or been in place for a period of time? You mentioned you were working on the list you provided; is there other pieces being pursued by other individuals?

You have quite a list, but I'm curious as to whether leadership capabilities, recognition, or cross-team communication, surfaced in your analysis.

Are you engaging any of the people in the organization in the EE initiatives or pushing out a final product?

Have you determined an approach to help identify if the initiatives are successful?

I look forward to your responses to these initial questions.

Patty

[Sujeet Kumar]

Hi Patty,

Our organization is 22 your old organization. We are privately owned organization and not a listed one. Till 3- 4 year back expansion and growth was never a focus of the organization. Then our organization has started hiring people with high potential. My organization has started its journey to growth and expansion because of people requirement as they wanted growth in their career.

Sr. Management team in my current organization are people who have been working with the organization since its inception.
I have joined this organization 2 year back and started the practice of organizing Employee Satisfaction Survey to identify satisfaction level in the organization. During these surveys we have got the feedback from people about their expectation.
I have prepared the list for activities to be performed as part of employee engagement from the the feedback of our employee. Almost 50% of our current staff is associated with organization with 2-4 year. 20% of our staff is associated with organization from more than 10 years.
I have given a clear action plan to my Sr. Management about the activities to be performed and what we can expect.
Would like to know your suggestion.


Sujeet