Employee engagement

The Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis

by Annamarie Mann and Jim Harter

See the full and original article and supporting research on Gallup’s website.

Story Highlights
• Employee engagement has barely budged in years
• Measuring engagement isn’t sufficient to improve it
• Five proven strategies can improve employee engagement

The world has an employee engagement crisis, with serious and potentially lasting repercussions for the global economy.

Though companies and leaders worldwide recognize the advantages of engaging employees — and many have instituted surveys to measure engagement — employee engagement has barely budged in well over a decade.

Gallup has been tracking employee engagement in the U.S. since 2000. Though there have been some slight ebbs and flows, less than one-third of U.S. employees have been engaged in their jobs and workplaces during these 15 years. According to Gallup Daily tracking, 32% of employees in the U.S. are engaged — meaning they are involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace. Worldwide, only 13% of employees working for an organization are engaged.

Here’s and overview of what’s explored in the full article…

• Ways to Improve Engagement
• Integrate engagement into the company’s human capital strategy.
• Use a scientifically validated instrument to measure engagement.
• Understand where the company is today, and where it wants to be in the future.
• Look beyond engagement as a single construct.
• Align engagement with other workplace priorities.

See the full and original article and supporting research on Gallup’s website.