Globally Top Employee Engagement Drivers
Hewitt (2015) research has shown that
some of work experience areas are more important to improving engagement than
others and also according to the research The key drivers below were identified
as the priorities for making engagement happen.
Figure 07:
Global Engagement Drivers
According to the research there are
three most important engagement drivers of participation.
1.
career opportunities
2.
Reputation
3.
Compensation
Keep it consistent from 2013 to 2014 and
most top 5 drivers are relatively consistent Across regions and markets. It is
also consistent that only about half of the employees It is essential to these areas,
and these areas are crucial to their participation. under these circumstances
In terms of career opportunities, most employees do not see the way forward
plan with the Organization, which has an impact The employee said, stay and
work hard. Also the combination of mentioned top engagement drivers displays
few insight Employees in various regions. (Hewitt, 2015).
Video
09: Employee Engagement Global Trends
Source:
(Optimum Leadership TV, 2011)
This video demonstrates about How Organizations should shift their thinking pattern and employee behaviours from old industrial model to new social network and how world influencing more employees to "opt-in." in other words treating employees like volunteers.
Employee
Engagement in Global Companies
The concept of
employee engagement is identified by the founders - Google (Larry Page and
Sergey Brin) as the foundation to make Google a great place to work through
valuing their employees. Google keeps people inspired by providing them the
freedom to manage their work in a flexible way to allow employees to work from
home when needed, adopt flex schedules, and increase the amount of personal
time employees get each year or allow employees to take their personal time in
hours not days. Google ensures employees are given the most inspirational,
Flexible unique work environments to think out of the box & generate new
ideas to succeed Google’s goals (Culture Summit.com, 2019).
Google Office Environment
Source: Andrea
Loubier, 2017
Video 10
–Further Illustration of Google strategies of engagement
(Source –
Google,2013)
Employees who work at google
self-motivated and committed to their work, where the employees are enjoying,
·
Free foods every day(Organic)
·
Free classes and lectures
·
Relax Office environment creates them to work freely and with less
stress.
·
Gym and fitness facility
·
Free health and dental
·
Free Haircuts
·
Free dry cleaning
·
Death benefits
·
Nap pods (CBS News, 2013)
The organization believes engaged
employee will increase organization’s productivity. Hence organization looks
like a playground, not an office for employees to work happily.
Conclusions
The concept of employee engagement that
evolved in the recent era is a positive attitude held by the employees towards
the organization and its values. Engaged employees lead to individual
performance, increased productivity, retention, customer loyalty and
profitability ultimately to the organizational performance. Engaged leadership
plays a main role in employee engagement as it is impossible to have engaged
people in organizations where there is no engaged leadership. At the same time,
it is very important to have an appropriate organizational culture & job
design in order to successful employee engagement. Employee engagement should
be a continuous process of learning, improvement, measurement, and action as it
has been proven throughout this article that employee engagement is a main
aspect of Enhancing organizational performance through individual productivity.
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