Recognise This! –CEO leadership is crucial to creating work environments in which employees will choose to engage.
In the last couple days, I featured very interesting research on the difference between Employee Engagement and Sustainable Employee Engagement from Towers Watson as well as research from Kenexa on declining employee engagement levels globally. It would be impossible for me to give that kind of in-depth consideration to the multitude of excellent posts and writings on employee engagement. So in today’s post, I’m featuring just a few that I found particularly interesting in the last several weeks.
From People Management magazine: “CEO buy-in crucial to boosting engagement levels”
Reporting on last month’s CIPD Employee Engagement and a discussion of the change programmes led by senior leaders, this article includes several stories of executives changing the culture in their organisations to one in which employees would want to engage. Click through for the stories – including powerful results.
From NBRI: “Employee Engagement: Leading by Example”
I believe every person at every level in an organisation has a role to play in employee engagement. But without leadership from the top demonstrating expectations for behaviours that lead to engagement, it’s difficult to expect the average employee to understand what they should do. This article makes a good argument for the role of the executive in employee engagement.
From Bersin: The Employee Engagement Primer
Though it’s a term that has become much more common during the last several years, they myriad of definitions of engagement; the difference between actively engaged, engaged, disengaged, etc.; and multiple survey and measurement instruments lead some to give up on working to improve engagement before they start. This introduction from Bersin makes it more clear.
What are you doing in your organisation to increase employee engagement? Do your executives lead by example?
