Best Employee Engagement Posts – May 11th
Do you see the tide shifting? Are you reading and hearing about how we are focused less on WHAT we do and more on WHY we do it? Less on PRODUCTIVITY and more on PEOPLE?
Here are some articles pointing that way. Not only on the need, but also on examples of those who are doing it.
Why Performance Management needs to be disrupted. Pronto.
\”Possibly the most soul-sucking activity at work is the prescribed employee performance process… For most companies, the process is little more than rushed data entry into systems of record the night before the system locks down… Finally, there is some fantastic research in the Harvard Business Review on the expectations of the emerging workforce…\”
Eliminating fear culture can save operational costs and jobs, says Pfizer
\”Pfizer reduced costs 40% without cutting jobs at a facility in Sweden using an alternative approach to organisational and cultural behaviour, and hopes to do the same at its newly acquired Austrian plant.\”
U.S. Employee Engagement Dips in March
\”Female workers are significantly more engaged in their jobs than males. In March, 34.7% of females were engaged, compared with 29.2% of males.\”
The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People
\”Why is change so difficult? One reason is that an unholy alliance links shareholder value theory and hierarchical bureaucracy. Once a firm embraces maximizing shareholder value and the current stock price as its goal, and lavishly compensates top management to that end, the C-suite has little choice but to deploy command-and-control management.\”
Oh, and there is more where this came from.
This is only some of the information on employee engagement I collect each week.
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