Human Resources community - HR Space from Personnel Today and Xpert HR

Browse by Tags

Understanding the Difference between Engagement and Satisfaction

Let’s be clear. The terms employee engagement and employee satisfaction are NOT interchangeable. This article is one of the worst examples I’ve seen of the terms being used interchangeably, to great confusion. Why does this matter? Employees can be quite satisfied with their job, your company and their...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 12-03-2010
Employee Engagement Network: Advice for Managers

Are you involved with employee engagement initiatives at some level? If you’re not already a member of the Employee Engagement Network , I highly recommend it as a place to interact with and learn from some of the best minds on this topic. David Zinger , the founder of the Network, recently solicited...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 19-02-2010
Varied Engagement and What to Do about It

CBS Money Watch on Bnet recently featured an article on what to do if you hate your job. Looking at why people are “dissatisfied” with their jobs, the author cites: “They don’t feel like they are contributing to anything meaningful, they aren’t passionate about what they do, and they don’t feel like...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 17-02-2010
How to Measure Employee Engagement Globally

A constant complaint about “employee engagement” is that the various research houses define engagement differently, offer different surveys to measure engagement, and then report those results in ways that mean different things in different environments and cultures. For example, Gallup found that Germany...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 15-02-2010
What Are Your Amazing Goals or Ideas?

Chris Ferdinand of Renegade HR recently published a terrific collection of short, actionable things HR can and should do in 2010. With contributions from various leaders and writers in the HR space, Do Amazing Things is a terrific, quick read in its entirety, but I’d like to highlight just a few: Lance...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-02-2010
Trust and Retention

What is the level of trust in your organization? I don’t mean how well management trusts employees to not steal directly or indirectly from the organization. I mean how much the employees trust the organization to do what is right by them. It’s inarguable that the trust relationship has been broken in...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-02-2010
Engagement Steady through the Recession

In my last post , I looked at the recent findings of The Conference Board on dramatically falling job satisfaction rates as compared to 20 years ago. But several other reports also show employee engagement rates remaining stable or even increasing during this recession. How is that possible? This highlights...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 29-01-2010
Employee engagement is key to avoiding a 2010 'brain drain'

With economic recovery in prospect, employers need to turn their attention from organisational survival to employee engagement (external website), if they are to prevent their most valued staff from jumping ship as the labour market thaws. This is according to Chartered Management Institute chief executive...

Posted to XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 28-01-2010
Recession over but employee engagement hits all-time low, CIPD warns

Are we talking about engagement or satisfaction? The CIPD survey referenced is talking about SATISFACTION -- how contented employees are to go to work and do the job given to them. ENGAGEMENT is defined in the Kingston call out box, but this is quite different from satisfaction. This article is very...

Posted to General HR (Forum) by DerekIrvineGloboforce on 27-01-2010
Decreasing Employee Satisfaction & What to Do about It

Employee satisfaction is dramatically down, per The Conference Board . Clearly, employees are growing less satisfied in their work, which lays to rest that ridiculous claim that people should be grateful to just HAVE jobs. While that is in some part true, leadership has worked diligently in the last...

Posted to DerekIrvineGloboforce (Weblog) by Anonymous on 27-01-2010

Page 1 of 13 (122 items) 1 2 3 4 5 Next > ... Last »