I like to reference this statistic that appears on our website when I see folks challenge the notion that there is no payoff of employee engagement: From the period of 1998 to 2006, the stock of the companies identified in FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work for in America” list outperformed that of the [...]
Winning Workplaces has always made the case, on the grounds of leading workplace studies like these and our own research, that employee engagement drives financial success. But it has still been up for discussion among CEOs and academics alike whether the inverse is really how the relationship works – whether financial success begets increased worker 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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