Evidence gives responsibility for employee engagement to managers and their management style. But is that responsibility to direct employees to engage or to develop their engagement (and engagement culture)?
Douglas McGregor, in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), said: “The effectiveness of organizations could be at least doubled if managers could discover how to tap into the unrealized potential present in their workforces.”
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Manager → Management Style → Engagement → Success
The above sequence pretty much says it all. And more often than not business owners look at that sequence on the back of my business card and nod their heads. Sometimes they even say, “That’s what every business needs to remember.”
Then they focus on what they hope will contribute to success but which too often has nothing to do with managers, their style, or employee engagement.
Here’s the case made simple:
Success comes from employee [...]
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One more post about communicating, the #1 key to improving employee engagement.
How much and how well a manager communicates with an employee directly determine how readily that employee engages in her work performance.
It’s easy to think, I’ll pay more attention to communicating with every one of my employees. Then it’s even easier to push that idea to the back burner.
So build a plan to communicate regularly with each individual [...]
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Tags: Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, performance improvement
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