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Engagement : Some Quotes (from articles in professional journals) Work never kills a person; the absence of it (unemployment) has killed many.   Remaining idle is not human nature.   No one likes to avoid work if there is clarity on what to do & how it will be evaluated.   Keeping work force idle produces negativity which impacts on team performance.   Engagement comes through involvement; people deliver more if they are emotionally involved with the work.   Delaying decisions on personal issues creates stress & diverts employee's attention from work.   Absence of engagement is a challenge that can produce industrial unrest.   Unless you know people intimately, you can't engage them effectively.   To keep their teams engaged, managers have to remain super-engaged.   An empowered manager is an incubator of employee engagement.   Employee motivation improves engagement levels.   Trust, developed through transparency, promotes engagement.   Engagement is fostered by Leadership; managers who lead from the front keep their task force actively engaged.   Occasional encouragement always improves engagement. Engagement comes through commitment. Attitudinal transformation creates a temperament for healthy engagement.   Employee engagement has transformed many organizations. Who is an engaged employee? Experience reveals that engaged employees always demonstrate most of the attributes given below: Good understanding of company's business.   Full clarity ... [more..]

According to a research in US, within any organization the employees who are subjected to more and frequent communication and interaction with their senior management are believed more likely to be engaged with their organization.Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global consulting firm reports in his survey that considerable disparities exist among companies in the frequency of senior management’s communication with employees.. According to the Watson Wyatt's Work USA 2006/2007 survey of 12,205 full-time US workers, highly engaged employees are much more likely to receive communication from senior managers at least once a month. More than half (56%) of these employees receive communication from senior management at least monthly. In contrast, 42% of low-engaged employees say they receive annual communication or no communication at all. Forty-three percent of employees reported that their firm’s senior management takes an active, visible role in communicating to employees, down from 45 percent in 2004. “Communication is often thought to be the direct supervisor’s role,” said Ilene Gochman, national practice director for organization effectiveness at Watson Wyatt. “But companies can create stronger teams and fuel excitement about the future if senior managers lay out the broad frameworks the firm will follow and supervisors reinforce that message. By ... [more..]

There are two distinct ways to use employee communication; one is to inform employees about what is happening in an organization, the other is to engage employees in the process of change. In this article we are going to highlight 3 case studies that demonstrate clearly the different techniques and approaches to ensure that your employee communication strategies bring about transformation in your organization.Employee Communication Case Study 1: At this telecommunications manufacturing plant, the company decided to involve employees in the organizational changes that were taking place. The company is involved in high technology and has approximately 1,900 employees. After a senior management workshop it was decided that a customer service change programme be developed. One of the methods introduced was the round table concept. The communications team organised for 18 people from a specific area to have a 90 minute meeting with senior managers. However, the key to the success of these meetings was that the employees did most of the talking and the senior managers, most of the listening. The organization planned to learn from these meetings what the barriers were to success and customer satisfaction. Over a 10 week period, 50 round tables were scheduled. At the ... [more..]