Employee Engagement - Week 7
Employee engagement
Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organization to give of their best each day, committed to their organization’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organizational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.
Employee engagement is based on trust, integrity, two-way commitment and communication between an organization and its members. It is an approach that increases the chances of business success, contributing to organizational and individual performance, productivity and well-being. It can be measured. It varies from poor to great. It can be nurtured and dramatically increased; it can be lost and thrown away.
Importance of Employee Engagement
• Reduced levels of staff churn
• Higher productivity
• Improved attendance
• Higher customer satisfaction and advocacy
There are three components of employee engagement which are validation, recognition, and feedback, as well as these three, are motivational instruments other than the other motivational aspects.
Validation
Validation is the unconditional recognition of an employee’s intrinsic human value. It is offered regardless of performance and involves listening, caring, and responding from the heart. It is the cornerstone of any relationship, whether inside or outside the workplace.
Recognition
Recognition is conditional praise based on job performance, behavior, and attitude. As a positive expression of appreciation for a job well-done and expectations exceeded, it serves as the bedrock of a high-performance culture. Recognition should be consistent, trustworthy, and frequent.
Feedback
Feedback encompasses periodic, confidential conversations about performance, behavior, and attitude designed to foster an employee’s personal growth and improvement. Feedback provides critical and supportive insight about how their work is viewed by their manager and additional company stakeholders (other teams, vendors, customers).
Employee engagement can be increased using motivational aspects. There are lots of theories which have been declared on motivational aspects.
Levels of engagement
In every organization, employees are acting on these three categories with the increase of the first category, an organization can perform well but when the employees are increasing on the other categories, particular organization’s performance is drained. The respective category is:
• Engaged employees work with passion and feel a profound connection to their work and company. They drive innovation and move the organization forward.
• Disengaged employees are essentially ‘checked out’. They’re ‘sleep walking’ through their work- day putting time (not energy or passion) into their work.
• Actively disengaged employees aren’t just unhappy at work: they’re busy acting out their unhappiness. These employees can often undermine what their engaged colleagues accomplish.
Ways to increase the Employee engagement
Macey and Schneider Employee engagement strategies
Macey and Schneider leave disengagement to one side and present a framework to delineate three related elements within the construct of employee engagement:
• Trait engagement
• State engagement
• Behavioral engagement
This article also seeks to make progress towards operationalizing the concept by distinguishing engagement from satisfaction.
Reference
Visual.ly, Employee engagement, June 5 2018
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Rheem, D 2017, the three components of employee engagement, June 5 2018, < http://donrheem.com/260-2/ >
Heryati, R 2017, Definition of people engagement, 6Q blog, June 5 2018, < https://inside.6q.io/the-definition-of-employee-engagement/>
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Employee Engagement Dynamics
Drivers of Engagement - What matters most?
Knowing whether employees are engaged or disengaged is only the first step. You also need to be able to take action on the results. You need to understand the key drivers of engagement and disengagement, and you need to be able to plan activities or initiatives that will have the greatest impact on increasing engagement.
The elements that drive engagement are usually similar across most companies, but the specific concerns and level of importance are unique and specific in every company and even in different demographic subgroups within a company.
We employ two techniques that enable you to identify the key drivers of engagement in your company and to understand what to focus on and how to improve in those areas.
1. Priority Level - we look at the statistical patterns across all groups in your organization to determine which items are impacting overall engagement within each demographic group. Items with low scores that are strongly linked to engagement are the areas where you will want to focus your change initiatives and engagement strategy.
2. Virtual Focus Groups - next, we ask targeted follow-up questions at the end of the survey that ask employees to provide examples of problems as well as suggestions for how to improve. Once you have identified an area that needs improvement, you can turn to the comments where you will often find detailed information that provides the specific what, why, and how so you can take action.
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