Don't try to "engage" them. Management cannot engage their workforce or motivate them.
Engagement is something employees do. Management can easily cause them to disengage and often does so. So find out from them what management is doing to disengag…
Respected Forum Members,
May I request all of you to please share some innovative engagement initiatives that can be taken for an educational institute with a total employees strength of 2000.
The organization is very young and growing rapidly.
T…
You will need to ask permission from the consulting firm. They may grant it as long as you give them credit in your doctoral thesis. It won't hurt to ask. Hewitt Associates has an office in India - I am not sure where but you can find it online at H…
Hi Sunil,
Drop me an email - I think I can help: fraserm@bwinc.com
We have a partner in india (HRAnexi) - maybe we can partner around more research. Please see this link for a recent study of engagement in india: http://bw.businessworld.in/PDF_upl…
Dear Members,
Greetings from Sunil Budhiraja
I have recently registered myself in a doctoral program. I want to use an engagement model as a base for my study. My question to the group is that can I use an already defined engagement model of a cons…
Hi Vijay,
I agree to you, but it may happen that the employee may not speak in an open forum about the issues s/he is facing. So I will recommend that either you can hire an external agency for this so that the responses will be candid and privacy…
An HR Professional with about 3 years of experience in the industry. Want to explore the areas related to people and learn more about their behaviour. Recently conducted an Employee Engagement Survey with one of the manufacturing company.
What is your interest or involvement in employee engagement?
At 8:06am on February 12, 2009, David Zinger said…
Hi Sunil
I am glad you joined us and look forward to your participation. You have a fine looking site and I wish you well with all your efforts relating to employee engagement. I trust you will find what you need here and let me know if I can be of assistance to you.
David
Do you ever wonder how past leaders could have missed what seems so obvious in hindsight? Sadly, most leaders live in an environment that makes them vulnerable to managerial failure. The problem lies in a little-recognized reality of leadership: iso…
Dear Ray,
Your concern is well founded. Employees look forward to surveys like they do a visit to the dentist! The Horsepower Survey, however, is an employee-focused survey to measure how rewarded employees feel about their work. It consists of sev…
Mike,
I will make mention of this new group in the next newsletter. Thank you for starting this and I wish you well and all European members the best with this focus.
David
Jason:
Good points about trust and aligning the strategic engagement with employee engagement. We need results for all.
I am concerned you will lose readers due to lack of formatting on this post. I encourage you to ensure that you format your pos…
Thanks for sharing this information, Roy.
When I was Research Director at The Loyalty Institute, we found that the #1 driver of employee commitment was an organization's efforts to build a sense of spirit and pride. This was true in the US as well…
As a survey consultant I guess that I should like the idea of conducting monthly surveys, but I am concerned that employees may feel that they are being "over surveyed."
There are options, of course. An organization might randomly assign each emplo…
This is a great read, a great story. I smiled the whole time as I read this. If this conversation is possible in your organization, then I'd say your leadership is trusted and transparent. Thanks for this story.
I won't be wishing you "Season's Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" this December. These secular, generic salutations are popular in corporate America because they are not specific to any one religion or belief system. The business world, like America's…
Hello Paul:
"if you want to improve productivity and reduce costs, you need to
tap into human nature’s pleasure-fueled engine."
I could not agree more but if we wait until after we hire someone we have waited too long.
Bob