Managment Plays a Crucial Role in Employee Engagement

Interesting research on employee engagement from Gallup Management Journal.

Organizations that understand the connections between worker stress and health and well-being can help their employees manage stress and find balance in their work and personal lives. When they do, productivity and engagement improve.

The Gallup Management Journal surveyed U.S. employees to probe their perceptions of how happiness and well-being affect their job performance. Gallup researchers examined employee responses to see which factors differed most strongly among engaged employees (27% of respondents) and those who were not engaged (59%) or actively disengaged (14%).

Gallup research……. show that supervisors play a crucial role in worker well-being and engagement. When respondents were asked to respond to the statement “My supervisor focuses on my strengths or positive characteristics,” 77% of engaged workers strongly agreed with the statement. Just 23% of not-engaged and a scant 4% of actively disengaged workers strongly agreed that their supervisor focused on their strengths or positive characteristics. Interestingly, not one engaged worker disagreed with this statement.

Read the rest of the article here.

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