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At 19% Engaged – U.S. and China Lead the World in New Buckingham Employee Engagement Index
The U.S. and China lead the world in employee engagement at 19% “fully engaged”, according to a new standardized international employee engagement index created by the Marcus Buckingham Company. Called the StandOut Global Engagement Index (GEI), the report compares employee engagement in 13 countries. Spain and Argentina ranked lowest in employee engagement. The company claims […]
Guest Post–5 Upcoming Workplace Engagement Realities
This post is by Richard Blabolil, President, Marketing Innovators Workforce engagement is a term you will hear and read more about in the future. In today’s business environment the role of the contingent employee has changed as companies leverage freelancers and contractors at an accelerated rate. This creates new opportunities and challenges for human resources […]
The Evolution of Meetings
< The following is a guest post from Sandi Daniel, President and CEO, FIRE Light Group. Sandi was a presenter at the 2010 EEA Networking Event in June 2010 and provides some perspective here, along with a link to her slides from her presentation (see end of post.) FIRE Light Group is a full service incentive […]
Mid-Level Managers – The Real Linchpin to Employee Engagement Post Recession
The following is a guest post from Derek Irvine, Head of Strategic Consulting and CMO, Globoforce – a leading worldwide provider of global strategic recognition solutions. In addition to their main website they can also be found on twitter, facebook, linkedin and have a well regarded blog. . As the economy begins to show more signs […]
Mid-Level Managers – The Real Linchpin to Employee Engagement Post Recession
The following is a guest post from Derek Irvine, Head of Strategic Consulting and CMO, Globoforce – a leading worldwide provider of global strategic recognition solutions. In addition to their main website they can also be found on twitter, facebook, linkedin and have a well regarded blog. . As the economy begins to show more signs […]
Good Recognition Takes Practice – Guest Post from Steve Green, President of Pollstream
The following is a guest post from Steven Green, President of PollStream, a Toronto-based company that develops and delivers engagement and community-building solutions to help leaders tap into Social Capital. Steve is also a presenter and roundtable leader at the The EEA Networking Expo June 3-6, 2009. I attended the SCNetwork session titled, “Getting Recognition Right” […]
Engagement Holds Steady, Despite the Recession
According to the 2009 Gallup Worker Engagement survey (see the graph on the Enterprise Engagement portal home page), the level of worker engagement held steady over the previous year, with some important nuances. There have been “significant changes in average mood by month as we’ve tracked it throughout the year,” says James K. Harter, Gallup’s […]
The Employee Engagement “Stockholm Effect”?
According to a study by Modern Survey, Minneapolis, MN, the level of employee engagement in late August 2009 is now even with the level the organization recorded in its August 2007 survey, conducted before the recession. All five components of the organization’s Employee Engagement Index showed further improvement since the February 2009 measurement. The company […]
2010 Trend: Employee Engagement Challenges Loom
Management faces a tough year ahead when it comes to engaging employees, writes John Rossheim, senior contributing writer for Monster, the job placement company. “With a year of punishing business conditions, successive layoffs and negligible pay increases behind them, many companies will face enormous employee-engagement challenges in 2010,” he writes in an article entitled: “2010 […]
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