Employee engagement
I come back to this every now and again and today is one of those days. There was an article in the Guardian a year or so ago, reporting on the Global Workforce Survey and evidencing the lack of engagement amongst employees – on a massive scale.
Barely one-fifth (21%) of the 90,000 employees surveyed (in 18 countries) were truly engaged in their work, in the sense that they would ”go the extra mile” for their employer. Nearly four out of 10 (38%) were mostly or entirely disengaged, while the rest were in the tepid middle….
The survey covered many of the key factors that determine workplace engagement, including the ability to participate in decision making, the encouragement given for innovative thinking, the availability of skill-enhancing job assignments, and the interest shown by senior executives in employee well-being.
It struck me at the time that the Community Empowerment Dimensions we talk so much about have something very simple and effective to offer. They help us (and employers) to understand how we can work in more empowering ways which:
- build people’s confidence
- include rather than exclude
- are open, democratic and accountable
- build positive relationships, identify common messages, develop and maintain links and promote partnership working
- encourage and equip people to take part and influence
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to try this out, hear and share a few stories? It just seems madness not to!
This people empowerment, improved approaches to working has always been with me and – as an aside – I was given a precious text many years ago by a fellow consultant: The Spirited Business: success stories of soul friendly companies. It is worth a look if you can find a copy!
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Hi Sal
Thanks for sharing this – it does seem to keep coming around.
I’ll keep a look out for The Spirited Business. In the meantime I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of the copies of Anarchists in the Boardroom which I’ve ordered and which Liam (the author) is just getting through the final stages of publishing (I blogged about it a while ago – http://lornaprescott.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/anarchists-in-boardroom.html). The More Like People idea feels an easy way to put empowering ways of working in to practice.