Saturday, September 4, 2010

Studies Reveal a 400 Percent Decrease in Shareholder Returns Linked to Poor Employee Engagement …

My thanks to one of the bloggers I follow, Aaron Juckett of The One-Stop ESOP Blog, for pointing me to a new study by Hewitt Associates which uncovers some of the most conclusive evidence I’ve seen that poor employee engagement leads to an undesirable outcome for the top-priority stakeholder for many companies: shareholders.

As Hewitt explains [...]

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Simple Performance Management Practices that Drive Up Employee Engagement

The following is a guest post by Sean Conrad.  Sean is a Senior Product Analyst at Halogen Software, one of the leading providers of performance appraisal software.
Most of us are familiar with Gallup’s employee engagement research and the twelve statements they use to measure it.
When I look at the list, it strikes me that there [...]

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Barnes & Noble in Studio City, CA Does Employee Recognition Well

Last week my wife had a birthday, so in celebration we decided to spend part of the day miniature golfing in Sherman Oaks.  On the way back home, I noticed that the Bookstar Barnes & Noble in Studio City was using its marquee (the building used to be a movie theater) for a very important [...]

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Evidence Employee Engagement Helps Companies Expand Instead of Close?

This new post on the Business Pundit blog caught my attention: Citing data from Wall St. Cheat Sheet, it contains a map of the U.S. showing the scope of business closures in FY 2009.  The number of closures are given for states suffering from the highest number of them, including New York, California, Texas, Georgia, [...]

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New Deloitte Survey Highlights Connection Between Employee Trust and Retention

Longtime readers will recall that I wrote the following in June:
Trust building activities may register high on the radar screens of the organizations Winning Workplaces [has honored], but on the whole among the roughly 27 million small businesses across the U.S., they do not.  These and other human capital strategies are considered by many leaders [...]

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