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5 Leadership Inputs into Employee Engagement: MMP #27 « David Zinger on Employee Engagement

By David Zinger - This post outlines the key inputs into employee engagement from leaders and managers within the organization. (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 295 )

Employee engagement in tough times

By Marcia Xenitelis - One of the things that continues to surprise me is that when times are bad, organizations still spend money on employee engagement surveys. What are they expecting these surveys to tell them? You only need to walk around the office or factory and listen into some tea room discussions to find out that employees are not engaged because they are worried about their jobs (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 380 )

Four levels of employee engagement

By Mitch McCrimmon - The evidence is clear: engaged employees are more productive than their disengaged peers. In 2005, an oft-quoted Towers Perrin survey found that companies with high employee engagement had up to 19% higher operating margin, net profit margin, revenue growth and up to 25% greater earnings per share than companies with low employee engagement. More recently, Watson Wyatt, found that "The highly engaged are more than twice as likely to be top performers – almost 60% of them exceed or far exceed expectations for performance." (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 434 )

Leadership and Employee Engagement | The Meaning of Leadership | Fast Company

By MITCH MCCRIMMON - The usual initiatives to engage employees are paternalistic. They merely scratch the surface because they leave the conventional heroic leadership model in place. The problem with heroic, transformational leadership is that the more heroic the leader, the more dependent employees can feel. Much of what is called employee engagement is nothing more than old motivational factors that we have known about for at least 40 years in most cases. (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 267 )

Leadership by Proxy Causes Low Employee Engagement | Mission Minded Management

By Michelle Malay Carter - A Wyatt Watson survey in India found that the adoption of well known HR practices does not necessarily equate to higher employee satisfaction and engagement scores. I could not discern specifically what “well known HR practices” the study is referring to, but I suspect it includes the current idea of managers handing over more of their managerial work to HR (orientation, job scoping, performance management, coaching, selection, training), leaving the managers with only their “technical” work to do. I think we have gone too far in this, and the tail is wagging the dog. (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 390 )

Leadership, culture and employee engagement: Do CEOs and executives actually get it?

By Alec Bashinsky - Employee engagement is critical to the success of your business, writes Alec Bashinsky. But what are CEOs, HR and business leaders waiting for? (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 194 )

Leadership’s Impact on Employee Engagement: Differences Among Entrepreneurs and Professional CEOs

By SSRN - This study aims at identifying similarities and differences between the leadership practices of managing entrepreneurs and professional CEOs and to investigate how these impact on their immediate subordinates’ satisfaction, commitment, motivation, and effectiveness (Engagement). Design: A multiple-respondents survey, aiming at CEOs and their immediate subordinates was conducted. Factor analysis, correlations and moderated regression analysis were used in order to reach conclusions. Findings: Two leadership dimensions are found to be most influential: (a) being a good manager/mentor and (b) articulating vision. (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 355 )

The Arenas of Success

By Chris Widener - "In this article we are going to be looking at the “Arenas” that every person, organization, or business can operate out of. They are Values, Responsibility, Possibility, Negotiation, Vision, Dedication, and Accomplishment. The degree of our success is directly related to the degree in which we excel in and balance these arenas. As you go through each segment, think practically, because these are intended to be more than intellectual ideas. They are intended to help you solidify them into your life and turn your potential into performance. Though this article is specific to business and industry, the principles here are easily translated into personal application." (Added: 21-Feb-2010 Hits: 148 )

The Power of Employee Appreciation

By Lucia Jenkins - You can find out what great companies are doing to recognize great employee efforts. Instituting a rewards and recognition program and permitting tele-working are just a few of the ways to reward good employees. Be the kind of leader that employees clamor to work for. (Added: 26-Feb-2010 Hits: 225 )

The ten C’s of employee engagement

By George Ambler - The shocking part of the employee engagement challenge is that research indicates that only between 17% and 29% (depending on the research) of employees are actively engaged in their job at any one time. This would mean that if you were a soccer or football team only 2-3 players on the team would be 100% committed to the team’s success. It seems to me that the odds of winning a game with only 2-3 players 100% committed to a teams success are pretty slim! So, “How can leaders engage employees’ heads, hearts, and hands?“, by starting to apply the following 10 C’s of employee engagemen (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 384 )