Getting Women’s Networks Right
By Selena Rezvani
When Bullies Grow Up
By Brian Martin
The Talent Transition Train
By Katie Day
Mobility vs. Mobility
By Pete Alcide
Getting Women’s Networks Right
By Selena Rezvani
When Bullies Grow Up
By Brian Martin
The Talent Transition Train
By Katie Day
Mobility vs. Mobility
By Pete Alcide
Although commencement is months away, organizations are now planning for to an influx of freshly-minted graduates to join their ranks. Potential and excitement fill the air. The opportunity to develop, inspire, engage, and grow these new workplace entrants is great. So is the potential to kill their motivation and drive... with just four small words.
AMA Enterprise, a division of American Management Association, recently conducted a survey of executives and managers from nearly 700 U.S. employers and learned that more than one in three have stepped up efforts to develop individual contributors.
From the research and reading I have done on employee engagement, I have observed that many organizations run a survey, receive thousands of data points back, then try and analyze the data to determine the issues and spot trends. Don’t get me wrong, surveys are a great way to draw a line in the sand to understand how engaged the business is, but my view is that there are some fundamental issues with surveys.
If your employees are making catty remarks about how you dress or debating what you said at the last staff meeting, there’s probably no need to be concerned. A little bit of office watercooler chat is perfectly normal, even if it borders on gossip. However, there are some employee grumblings that you should try to avoid from spreading around the staff because they can be bad for productivity and morale. Jason Carney, director of human resources for WorkSmart Systems, a human resources outsourcing firm with more than 300 clients, says to keep your ears opened to these common, hot-button employee gripes:
Creating a culture of employee engagement is getting a lot of attention these days and for good reason. Studies have repeatedly shown that companies with higher employee engagement outperform their competitors on many different levels. How is this possible? It’s because an engaged employee is not just happy or satisfied at work - they actually believe in the vision and purpose of the company.