Developing employee engagement: management’s role

March 3rd, 2010

Douglas McGregorEvidence 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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Do you manage to success? You can!

March 1st, 2010

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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10 C.O.R.E. Tips for a Change

October 24th, 2008

The first and second postings in Culture to Engage this week have focused on how change in your business affects your employees’ engagement…in their work, in your business, and in their concerns.

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