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- Who are you?
- I'm an employee of a Fortune 500 company who feels passionately that corporation management can and should be doing a better job of managing.
- What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
- Trying to change employee engagement at my workplace.
- Where are you located?
- Newark, DE
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Management from an employee perspective
I read here, on EEN, a lot of awesome ideas about how management can/does work successfully but I have yet to experience this type of management in real life.
Right now, as a result of the abysmal economy, the retail company I work for has shown little/no understanding of those of us who man the store. In their attempt to increase profits they've thrown respect and communication out the window. New "rules" are appearing out of nowhere and often change from week-to-week if not day-to-day. Compli… Continue
Right now, as a result of the abysmal economy, the retail company I work for has shown little/no understanding of those of us who man the store. In their attempt to increase profits they've thrown respect and communication out the window. New "rules" are appearing out of nowhere and often change from week-to-week if not day-to-day. Compli… Continue
Posted on January 25, 2009 at 12:42pm — 2 Comments
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An engaging look at some words of wisdom. Which statements do you believe fits best for employee engagement?
Excellent - thanks Heather!!
I summarized some high-level thought leadership from firms such as DDI, McKinsey, Towers Perrin, and Hewitt in my latest blog post. These are all papers from the last several months discussing engagement: bit.ly/3a4uft
I know that Towers Perrin a...
Thanks a lot for your help !
I actually did have a look on Gallup's 12 Questions, the only worry is that it measures more the enablers of employee engagement than employee engagement itself. I have however grouped the items into themes, and only o...
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I noticed your emphasis on "doing a better job of managing." I could not agree more! You might want to join the Manager Tools group and start a discussion there.
Terry
I am so pleased you joined us at the network. I wish you all the best in changing employee engagement at your workplace. I think your passion for the best will help you a lot and I trust the resources (papers/forums/people) on this network will also be a big help. I look forward to hearing more from you.
David