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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: 302 )

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: 393 )

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: 457 )

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: 281 )