Why Many Companies Struggle With Employee Engagement
Are we going about it wrongly? Is employee engagement even about the number of activities, or is there something more to it? If so, what is it all about.
Are we going about it wrongly? Is employee engagement even about the number of activities, or is there something more to it? If so, what is it all about.
Here’s the truth about us introverts: We are not going to march into your workplace and make ourselves known. That’s the last thing in the world we’d probably want. We are quiet and often misunderstood for being shy and non-participative.
If you’re still stuck in an office, you might as well be stuck in the 20th century. An off-site working culture can be a boost to productivity if handled the right way.
A company’s measure of success is usually determined by its profit margin, or bottom line – but focusing on another margin also makes good business sense. What is this other margin?
Generational gaps are frustrating. Yet, in today’s fast-paced, demanding world, diversity is important. Companies need the expertise of the older combined with the energy and drive of the younger in order to thrive.
Author Alfie Kohn, described as America’s most outspoken critic of competition, writes: ‘Punishment and rewards are two sides of the same coin. Rewards have a punitive effect because they, like outright punishment, are manipulative.