It’s been a while since I wrote about employee engagement but recent posts from Gemma and Mervyn prompted me to have another go. When I looked, I remembered why I have avoided it for so long. It’s very hard to find any information about employee engagement that isn’t written by people trying to sell you stuff about employee engagement.
Articles on employee engagement come thick and fast these days, usually with some kind of apocalyptic warning. It’s getting worse, said this New York Times piece last week, with the suggestion that American companies are turning into ‘White Collar Salt-Mines’. Germany has a serious management problem, warned Gallup, as it reported that only 15 percent of German workers are engaged and that this number has barely shifted since 2001. Engage for Success reckons that Britain’s worsening productivity gap is due, in no small part, to poor engagement levels.
At this point, I…
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