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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010And, now for some positive news, to balance out my last post, Gallup: employee engagement is down / WSJ: more workers start to quit
The Gallup Great Workplace Award honors organizations whose employee engagement results demonstrate they have the most productive and engaged workforces in the world.
More information on the award, Gallup and the [...]
Gallup: employee engagement is down / WSJ: more workers start to quit
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010According to the Gallup Management Journal’s Employee Engagement Index, only 29% of employees feel fully engaged in their work, while 54% report not being engaged, and another 17% are knowingly disengaged.
Figures indicate that no more than 1/3 of employees report that they are passionate about the work they do.
A May 26, 2010 article in the [...]
ASTD Conference – Ken Blanchard: Leading at a Higher Level and TrustWorks!
Monday, May 24th, 2010A highlight of the ASTD Conference (American Society for Training & Development), held in Chicago, May 16-19, 2010, was an informal talk at the Ken Blanchard Companies® exhibit booth by Ken Blanchard, Chief Spiritual Officer. Ken is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, respected for his years of groundbreaking work in [...]
UK survey: 0nly 40% of employees say their business is ethical
Monday, May 3rd, 2010According to HRZone, only 40% of employees say their business is ethical (article by Cath Everett, April 28, 2010).
“While employers that adhere to corporate social responsibility and environmentally-friendly business practices show better rates of employee engagement and retention, only two out of five UK staff believe that the organisation they work for behaves [...]
Get rid of performance reviews … Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the late American quality guru, had it right
Monday, April 26th, 2010An article in the Wall Street Journal (4/19/10) by Samuel A. Culbert, “Yes, Everyone Really Does Hate Performance Reviews,” comments that performance reviews are “one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities.”
The article goes on to say that performance reviews do enormous damage on both a personal level [...]
Four steps to becoming an employee-centered organization
Monday, April 12th, 2010According to a 2008 article in HR Management magazine, replacing a worker costs on average 100% to 125% of an employee’s annual salary. Yet, many organizations mistakenly ignore employee retention.
An article in the 04/01/10 issue of AMANET, “Becoming an Employee-Centered Organization,” by Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. and Gary M. Stern, outlines four steps that [...]
Employee engagement and recognition – keys to a trust relationship
Monday, April 5th, 2010A March 18, 2010 article in Amanet.org by John Schaefer, How to turn HR expenses into profits, talks about how a trust relationship can be built up between employees and managers:
Five keys
1. Visit everyone
2. Stay positive
3. Be genuine
4. Make sure it’s not all business
5. Don’t expect results right away
Three strategies
1. It’s all about perception
Employees won’t [...]
A stressed out workforce: boosting worker health and productivity
Friday, March 5th, 2010The 2009/2010 Staying@Work report, a joint survey by Watson Wyatt Worldwide and the National Business Group on Health, found that many companies have not dealt with the impact of stress in the workplace:
The survey, based on a survey of 282 companies in the United States, showed that the primary sources of stress affecting organizations today [...]
Trust in the Workplace – Chicagoland Chapter of the ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)
Monday, January 18th, 2010I was invited to speak on the topic of Trust in the Workplace at the January 18, 2010 meeting of the Chicagoland Chapter of ASTD (American Society for Training & Development)
Trust is the core issue impacting organizational, team and leadership effectiveness. The session explored the impact of trust in the workplace, definitions of trust, [...]
Job satisfaction in U.S. falls to record low
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010According to a new survey published by the Conference Board, only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work, the lowest level ever recorded by the Conference Board research group in more than 22 years of studying the issue. When the Conference Board first conducted the survey in 1987, most workers — 61 percent [...]
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