What You Need To Know About Employee Engagement
We’ve all heard about employee engagement, but what is it really? Put simply, employee engagement is those who work with a passion and feel a profound connection to their company. Highly engaged employees drive innovation and help move the organisation forward.
Highly engaged employees are highly motivated and give their all while at work. These engaged employees have pride and commitment to their organisation. This leads to better business outcomes compared to their non-engaged or those engaged at lower level peers.
Furthermore, employee engagement is the extent to which people feel connected with and committed to their job, team and organisation. Being connected is most clearly reflected in how much they really care about achieving their own objectives as well as the success of the team and organisation.
When employees are engaged, they adopt the vision, values, and purpose of the organisation they work for. They become passionate contributors, innovative problem solvers, and stunning colleagues. Why wouldn’t you want more of these?
I would assume that in most organisations while many of the people in them work hard there are few that have high levels of engagement. Yet, high levels of employee engagement create’s enthusiasm, energy, effort, innovation, teamwork and so on which in turn creates; innovation, better business outcomes, discretionary effort, energy and high levels of performance to name a few. Low levels of engagement, on the other hand, has the opposite effect and can be seen in; opposition, negativity, undermining, wasting time, poor performance, complaining, lack of initiative, motivation and teamwork which in turn ultimately creates poor business performance.
Gallup research from 2012 with almost 50,000 businesses over 34 countries discovered those businesses that scored in the top half of employee engagement have double the odds of success of those in the bottom half and those in the 99th percentile of engagement have four times the success rate. This is the 8th year that Gallup has conducted such study and the results are consistent each time.
Not only that, if you wanting to decrease or maintain; absenteeism, turnover, safety incidents, quality, customer service, productivity and profitability then high levels of employee engagement will assist as there is a direct correlation.
We find that some organisations don’t concern themselves about employee engagement because mostly they feel their employees get the job done. But do you want employees that get the job done or do you want employees that help move your business forward?
At HR Business Direction we can measure and define your level of engagement in the organisation, keep a pulse on employee engagement and assist in improving and maintaining it. Contact us here.
Leisa Messer BBus(HRM); GradDipIR; CAHRI; IRSQ
Managing Director | HR Strategist
leisa.messer@hrbd.com.au
07 3890 2066
www.hrbd.com.au
