Mastering Vendor Selection and Partnership Management
Employee engagement
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2. • What is Employee Engagement?
• What is Engagement?
• Types of Employees
• Advantages of Engaged Employees
• Hewitt Model of Engagement
• Why Engagement
• Employee Engagement – Approaches
• Factors Contributing to Employee Engagement
• Employee Engagement – the Driver of Success
3. • In simple terms, Employee engagement is the level of commitment
and involvement an employee has towards their organization and its
values.
• An engaged employee is aware of business context, and works with
colleagues to improve performance within the job for the benefit of
the organization.
4. • Engagement is the ability to be present, focused, and
energized.
• Engaged people go above and beyond what is expected
of them because they feel part of a purpose larger than
themselves.
• Purpose is the foundation of engagement – it’s the vital
element that makes an engaged organization possible
and the first step to creating an engaged culture.
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6. • Employee Engagement is the means or strategy by which an
organization seeks to build a partnership between the organization
and its employees, such that:
• Employees fully understands and is committed to achieve the organization's
objectives, and
• The organization respects the personal aspirations and ambitions of its
employees.
• A definition of a fully engaged employee
• Is intellectually and emotionally bound with the organization
• Gives 100 percent
• Feels passionately about its goals and
• Is committed to live by its values.
• The employee goes beyond the basic job responsibility to delight the
customers and drive the business forward
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8. Engaged employees will stay with the
company
They will normally perform better and are
more motivated.
There is a significant link between
employee engagement and profitability.
Builds passion, commitment and
alignment with the organization’s
strategies .
Increases employees’ trust in the
organization
Provides a high-energy working
environment
9. Say
Stay
Strive
Behaviour:
engaged employees consistently
speak positively about the
organization to co–workers,
potential employees and
customers
Behaviour:
engaged employees have
an intense desire to be a
member of the organization
Behaviour:
engaged employees exert extra
effort and engage in behaviours
that contribute to business
success
10. Employee Engagement holds a very important position, few key
benefits include:
• Better Performance - Engaged employees work smarter, not harder.
They keep looking for ways to improve performance at their workplace.
This means more sales, lower costs, better quality and innovative
products.
• Better Communication - Engaged employees communicate – they
share information with colleagues, they pass on ideas, suggest and
advice and they speak up for the organization. This leads to better
performance, greater innovation and happier customers.
• Greater Customer Satisfaction – Engaged employees go out of their
way to meet customers’ needs. Customers aren’t slow to notice and this
leads to higher levels of repeat business, at a good cost.
11. • Better Team Working - Employee engagement is about increasing the
employees connection with the principles, strategies, processes, culture
and purpose of the organization. It is a matter of commitment and
encouragement. It is a matter of focusing on business results, and the
employees having a clear sense of responsibility for delivering on the
business agenda.
• Greater Commitment - Engaged employees care about the future of
the organization they work for, they feel proud to work for their company
and they get on better each day with their colleagues.
• Lower Employee Turnover and Greater Ability to Recruit Great
People – Higher engagement leads to low attrition, they actively seek
out new people who they believe can help the company get even better.
12. • Employee engagement approach for all employees
Employee
engagemen
t approach
Communicatio
n Activities
Reward
Schemes
Culture
building
Activities
Team Building
Activities
Leadership
development
Activities
13. • Communications activities
• Communication forums to provide regular feedback to all people,
including team meetings & conferences.
• In-house magazines
• On-line communications, including discussion boards and blogs
by company personnel including senior management
• Monthly updates on corporate goals and directions
• Regular employee opinion and satisfaction surveys
• Active soliciting of employee feedback, including opinions
14. Reward schemes
• Compensation and benefit
programs
• Stock ownership and profit
sharing
• Recognition programs
• Idea collection schemes linked
to rewards for idea generation
• Long service and good
performance awards
Culture Building Activities
• Clear and humane HR policies
• Pro-social corporate objectives
and corporate Social
responsibility
• Equal opportunities policies and
practices
• Initiatives to maintain the quality
of work life and a balance
between personal/ professional
lives
• Developing a safe, clean and
inspiring work environment
• Demonstrating a commitment to
employees’ well being
15. Team building activities
• Team recreational activities, such
as bowling, skating, trips to the
cinema (or the pub!)
• Social activities, such as family
gatherings and barbeques
• Community outreach activities
such as volunteering and fund-
raising.
Leadership development activities
• Effective Leadership
• Effective Performance
Management
• Fair evaluation of performance
• Empowerment through effective
delegation
• Coaching and mentoring
activities to give honest
feedback by supervisors and
peers
• An open and transparent
culture to empower people and
develop entrepreneurs
17. • Innovation in the work
place
• Employee Participation
• Creation of Stress free
environment
• Team work
• Employee Accountability
• Free Flow of Information
• Adaptable to changes
• Ability to face Challenges
• Employee motivation
• Hygienic Environment
Employee
Engagement resulting
high performance
organization
18. • Employee Engagement is a measurable degree of an employee’s
positive or negative attachment to their job, colleagues and
organisation which profoundly influences their willingness to learn &
perform at work.
• Thus Engagement is distinctively different from satisfaction,
motivation, culture, climate and opinion and very difficult to measure.