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I have beed involved in several layoffs activities; some of which seemed to foster the re-birth of trust and some of which did not. I was asked to reflect on the differences between the two and one thing that seemed to differentiate the 'successfu...
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This comment was motivated by Mitch's comments to whom I want to express my thanks for getting me off the slopes and back to thinking about these important issues. First, I am wondering if the names I gave to the factors really capture what they m...
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At 2:43pm on August 6, 2008, David Zinger said…
Keith:
You provided an insightful and informative response. I am concerned that many people might miss it. I encourage you to copy and paste this and make it a blog post. You have a blog attached to your own page and it will appear on the front page too. If you need any help with this let me know.
David
At 4:24pm on August 5, 2008, David Zinger said…
Keith,
I appreciate you joining the employee engagement network. I would love to hear how you think employee engagement has evolved over the last 15 years and if you perceive any changes in how employee engagement work should be done. Thank you for joining the network.
David

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Who are you?
I am a retired college professor/administrator who also has been engaged in doing organizational research since 1980 or thereabouts.

My interest in engagement began when I was commissioned to do a study for an oil company to see iof there was a relationship between leadership practice and work unit productivity. This research interest has continued till this day.
What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
I have been doing research on the drivers of engagement for about 15 years, althiough when I started it wasn't called engagement.
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http://www.SomersetGuild.com
Where are you located?
Austin, Texas

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Engagement

I have been away for a while (2 months) but have noticed a stream of blogs about specific behaviors that enhance engagement. I suspect this list is a loong one but since I am a bit of an academic, I was asked by a colleague to isolate the behaviors that enhance engagement.

To give you a backdrop to this endeavor - this colleague worked for an company that was interested in determining if there were specific leadership practices that enhanced engagement as we had already demonstrated that high l… Continue

Posted on December 2, 2008 at 3:15pm — 7 Comments

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Reflections on the Evolutionof the Concept of Engagement

Thanks for the interesting request. It is challenging to think back over almost two decades of research on engagement to determine how it has evolved. My first thought is that the more things seem to change, the more they stay the same. I recall doing an evaluation of the world wide employee survey for an oil company about 15 years ago, the reason for which was the company did not observe any movement in the so called commitment index they were tracking, this in spite of many efforts to improve… Continue

Posted on August 7, 2008 at 9:29am — 3 Comments

 
 

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