Getting Your Workforce Engaged

Management Issues has a recent post on employee engagement entitled "What to do when the thrill is gone..."

Their premise?

• Underperforming and disengaged employees impact and infect the entire organization and many of those within it in a variety of ways, all of them negative.
• When an employee performs and produces and the organization fails to do so, employees become disillusioned and tend to settle for a less-is-more mindset when it comes to work and working. Disengagement results.

So, what can managers actually do on a day-to-day basis to build a more engaged workforce?

• Show mutual respect
• Hold one another accountable
• Contribute and participate
• Recognize and reward effort
• Live the values of the organization

Read the entire article here.