How employee engagement affects your organisation…

I have previously discussed the importance of employee engagement to leadership (here, here, here and here) and was defined in a post as:

“a heightened emotional connection that an employee feels for his or her organization, that influences him or her to exert greater discretionary effort to his or her work”

Why is employee engagement important? Because is impacts the bottom line, research on employee engagement has found that:

"Fortune 500 companies in the lowest quartile in company profitability had 50% fewer engaged employees compared to those in the top quartile."

More importantly low levels of employee engagement are a sign of poor leadership. If you had to ask me for a measurement to gauge the result of your leadership effort than this is the measure I would recommend you use, the percentage of your workforce that is highly engaged. The Slacker Manager Blog, in a recent post recommended this YouTube video (embedded below), which does a good job of highlighting the importance of leadership in the workplace today.

How engaged are you employees? What does this say about your leadership?

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