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All This Talk About Employee Engagement: What is It, Anyway?

March 20, 2011

In the opinion of my advisor survey on employee engagement, a significant number of respondents asked the definition of employee engagement. Below I quote some definitions and explanations of sites, blogs and Corporate Communications. The Conference Board report, “Employee engagement, a review of current research and its consequences,” offers this definition: Employee engagement is an increased emotional connection that employees feel for their organization, and have influenced, or put them into practice more discretionary effort to his work. The key words are emotional and discretionary effort. A dedicated team has a good idea to work, head and / or the company decides to produce and more difficult than expected small. Chris Gay, a consultant with Bridge Consulting provides an explanatory definition: Whether you want to have this culture of high performance, organizational commitment, alignment and staff in business strategy, there are four key issues that describe a final state, where employees are really helpful, committed to the organization on the market successfully. • understand the business and its role in their success. • Trust management and believe that decisions in the best interests of society and people in the eye. • Is there a difference in their work every day to do business. • Do you feel appreciated and recognized. The above lists of emotional involvement (commitment) to the organization: understanding, trust and esteem. We may assume that it causes make a difference. Bob Hayward of OPC-UK, a consulting firm, offers a definition that I find interesting, and not only because of the s instead of employee engagement Z. is the means or strategy, which is an organization, a partnership between the organization and their staff to develop, so that: • employees understand and fully committed to the goals of the organization and implementation • The organization respects the desires and personal ambitions of its employees. Interesting that you define employee engagement as a means or a more of a result. I think it’s both. An effective organizational culture created and reinforced the commitment of employees (wages). The commitment (or strategy means) gives the desired business outcomes such as customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, profitability, and much more. Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, co-authors of this path to follow, and in collaboration with the Gallup Organization, please give us a list of basic features shown by the dedicated staff: • Use your skills every day. • a consistent level of high performance. • Natural Innovation and research efficiency. • Discuss the establishment of supportive relationships. • Clarity about outcomes of their role. • Emotional committed what they do. • Challenge for the achievement of objectives. • high energy and enthusiasm. • Never short of things to do to create positive things to work. • expand what they do and rely on them. • the commitment of the company, group work and role. Characteristics of dedicated employees, listed above, and get your ideas on this subject, with which you worked – you can have more value than a definition. (I understand better and better, the word of the sentence or phrase that comes to the definition in the dictionary!) Research such as high and my involvement with the company employee engagement and performance improvement, I have a somewhat different definition of employee engagement developed. My definition is five years working with clients, tools and techniques to improve the staff. Here’s my definition: the investment of energy, skill, ability and willingness to work. Commitment is the “participation” and “commitment” is still observable behaviors such as: • Attention to detail tasks • Commitment to completion of the assignment • participation in specific projects • Effective communication with other loans • Demonstration of personal / professional development • Launch of solving problems and / or conflict resolution • Innovation in terms of processes and procedures The items listed are not prerequisites for the undertaking, or the sum of characteristic behaviors. I hope they do, you stimulate your thoughts with other behaviors that indicate an employee you – better yet, it’s your body of people – involved.

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