I’m Simpson…Gregory F Simpson, Agent In Engagement. Below is the latest intelligence briefing on employee engagement. Follow @agtinengagement to stay current with the latest updates.
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SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE
What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?
Harvard Business Review: “Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. Why? In part, it’s because we value and reward good management of financial capital. And we measure it. Great CEOs are held in high regard for their clever management and allocation of financial capital. But today’s great CEOs need to be equally great at managing human capital. How can we manage human capital better?”
3 Things You Need To Determine Merit Pay Without Ratings
TalentSpace Blog: “Your organization wants to do away with ratings. But if you do that, how are you planning to determine pay increases? I’ve got a model that’s just what the doctor (or finance department, or CHRO, or whoever) ordered. Before you walk away from ratings, you need to establish an approach to understand, differentiate, and measure employee performance.”
Why employee complaints are the best gifts to management
The Manila Times: “[T]here’s a hidden fortune underneath every worker’s ideas or complaints. Ignore them and you’ll soon find a demoralized person influencing other workers, multiplying themselves to do invisible botched jobs that could turn customers away. If not, these same workers can go to other employers who are more than willing to respect their contributions and views.”
5 I/O psych research findings I think every leader needs to know
LinkedIn: “At Culture Amp, we’re lucky to have a lot of people with academic backgrounds in I/O psychology, and we share and debate the latest findings endlessly. Here’s some of the research and findings that I think every leader needs to know.”
The Week in Employee Engagement: May 27, 2017
Maritz Motivation Solutions: “The utter explosion of digital content presents countless opportunities for learning. Start here to narrow down your search each week in the often overwhelming landscape of employee engagement thought leadership!”
Engagement Weekly: Prepare Yourself
Allen Communication: “Learn about the latest in employee engagement within various industries. This week’s influential authors look at some things all should keep in mind about employee engagement including the good and the bad.”
IBM’s Remote Work Reversal Is A Losing Battle Against The New Normal
Fast Company: “One CEO explains why IBM’s latest directive is retrograde and likely to backfire.”
Quit measuring employee engagement
Signal v Noise: “It’s time to break our addiction to metrics — starting with employee engagement.”
Re-engineering work processes for improved productivity
People Matters: “As complex organizations and complex work processes run the risk of weighing down or slowing down the company’s growth, it becomes imperative for those at the helm to restructure or re-engineer accordingly. Sometimes radical redesigning and reorganizing an enterprise becomes necessary to lower costs, increase productivity and improve the quality of service.”
How Managers Can Excel by Really Coaching Their Employees
Gallup: “The problem is, recent Gallup research finds that only about one in four employees “strongly agree” that their manager provides meaningful feedback to them — or that the feedback they receive helps them do better work. Even more alarming is that a mere 21% of employees strongly agree that their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work.”
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Other recent Agent in Engagement data/reports by Agent Gregory F Simpson:
- Veteran Operative Employee Engagement Insights: 05.22 – 2017.05.26
- Career Path Analytics Conference Recap
- Agile Engagement: Key Takeaways from the Book
- May the 4th Be With You!
- Employee Engagement-Related Spotlight Articles of April 2017
- Employee Engagement In the News: It’s No Fairytale
- Employee Engagement-Related Spotlight Articles of March 2017
