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Developing employee engagement: management’s role

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:45:27 +0000

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.”

McGregor [...]

Do you manage to success? You can!

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:08:27 +0000

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 [...]

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

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:21:10 +0000

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.

Change Trouble-making Change

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:05:00 +0000

I say engagement comes first, stimulates performance and leads to performance improvement. Consequently, if novelty, complexity, and abstractness hinder performance (improvement) -- and for sure, they do! -- then they are actually hindering the employee's motivation to be engaged.