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Nicole Aitken

New Industrial and Organizational Psychology Journal 8 Replies

The new journal from APA's I/O division called "Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice" has dedicated the first issue to research in employee engagement. I t...

Started by Nicole Aitken. Last reply by Christina Mar 9.

Susan Robinson

The happiness formula

Great resource on happiness from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/happine valuable research studies are cited. Susan

Started by Susan Robinson Dec. 15, 2008.

Samantha Wood

Employee engagement and CSR 2 Replies

Does anyone know of any research that proves the connection between successful employee engagement and CSR?

Tagged: engagement, employee, CSR

Started by Samantha Wood. Last reply by Samantha Wood Sep. 10, 2008.

Jennifer Schulte

Is there an engagement difference by Generation? Watson Wyatt says ... 1 Reply

A new report from WW can be viewed here ... thoughts on the impact in your organization? http://www.heissmann.at/news/press.asp?ID=17231

Started by Jennifer Schulte. Last reply by George Reavis Jul. 17, 2008.

Warren Young

Methodolgies compared 3 Replies

I'm a little loathe to ask this question but I'll bet there are others thinking it. How do the various methodologies of EE compare? I am not looking for the one truth and I appreciate this may no...

Started by Warren Young. Last reply by Jennifer Schulte Jun. 30, 2008.

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PRANAB KUMAR MAHAPATRA Comment by PRANAB KUMAR MAHAPATRA on May 23, 2009 at 1:28pm
HI,
my first post! I am doing research on employee engagement in steel Industry in India.Specifically, my organization (like all organizations) is undergoing dramatic change due to open market exposure also other steel producing units. My thrust will be on, understing the importance of engagement during change and any best practices on maintaining/increasing engagement during change.

I hope to contribute to the community and look forward to the dialogue, and Thanks.
Stephen J. Gill Comment by Stephen J. Gill on December 12, 2008 at 8:10am
An interview with Tom Barry, managing director of BlessingWhite Europe, describes the results from some of their surveys related to engagement, disengagement, and coaching. See: http://cxo.bnet.co.uk/?play=260568193
Kristy Maksim Comment by Kristy Maksim on September 30, 2008 at 8:40am
Hi all -- my first post! I am looking for research on employee engagement and change. Specifically, my organization (like all organizations) is undergoing dramatic change in the form of a recent merger. I am starting a conversation on engagement with my leaders, and I would like to incorporate research on 1) the importance of engagement during change and 2) any best practices on maintaining/increasing engagement during change, specifically in our case during M&A.

Thanks in advance for any sources you know of. I hope to contribute to the community and look forward to the dialogue.

Kristy
Vijay Kumar Shrotryia Comment by Vijay Kumar Shrotryia on July 14, 2008 at 4:02am
hrspecial_survey.pdf

friends:
go through this link+++
Jennifer Schulte Comment by Jennifer Schulte on June 25, 2008 at 1:47pm
I am interested in the 2008 Watson Wyatt report on Employee Engagement? Does anyone here have it to share?
Carol Wain Comment by Carol Wain on June 3, 2008 at 5:42pm
I just read an article from PWC on Pivotal Employees http://www.hreonline.com/pdfs/06022008Extra_SaratogaPivotalEmployees.pdf

Not sure if this is what youare looking for... I find it interesting!
Chris Bailey Comment by Chris Bailey on May 17, 2008 at 6:38pm
I'm reading Taking Care of the People who Matter Most by Sybil Stershic. There are a few resources she offers that provide research into employee engagement. One of them is:

Linking Organizational Characteristics to Employee Attitudes and Behavior

I believe the research is a couple of years old, but it still looks extremely relevant and useful for our purposes.
Roy Saunderson Comment by Roy Saunderson on May 12, 2008 at 9:16am
My involvement with employee engagement is specifically related to the subset element of employee recognition and its contribution to EE.

A recent scientific study reported that paying people a compliment appears to activate the same reward center in the brain which is stimulated when paying people cash.

Doctors Keise Izuma, Daisuke N. Saito, and Norihiro Sadato from the University of Fukui, Fukui, in Japan reported in Neuron (Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 284-294) said the study offers scientific support for the long-held assumption that people get a psychological boost from having good recognition.

Entitled “Processing of Social and Monetary Rewards in the Human Striatum” their study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study patterns within the reward-related brain areas, notably the striatum. The striatum is activated by stimuli associated with reward, but also by aversive, novel, unexpected or intense stimuli, and cues associated with such events

Results from participants receiving monetary and social rewards indicated the same or overlapping areas of the brain were activated, thus showing a neural explanation for the social behaviors around reward and recognition. The authors suggest the idea of that we have a “common neural currency” that crosses over for monetary and social rewards and that they are biologically coded by the same neural structure of the striatum.

I find it encouraging to know medical and social science can validate that the brain actually registers rewards and recognition. What once seemed so soft is beginning to show some hard evidence for its benefits.
David Zinger Comment by David Zinger on May 10, 2008 at 9:29am
Please let the network participants know about any of the latest research you are finding on the topic.
 

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Jennifer Schulte Jean Douglas, CMC Nicole Aitken Samantha Wood Susan Robinson David Zinger Terrence Seamon Lisa Wojtkowiak, SPHR Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D. George Reavis Olivia Sprinkel John Kmiec Christina Warren Young Michele Egan Chris Bailey Varadarajan Roy Saunderson Neal Knight-Turvey Stephen J. Gill Ajit Chouhan Elsabe Jeffrey Summers Carol Wain Rory MacNeill Ian Buckingham Vijay Kumar Shrotryia Jon Ingham jalpa CV Harquail
 
 

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