Poor Leaders Can Decrease Worker Productivity By Up to 40 Percent

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Facebook Disconnect – The Most High-Profile ‘Personal 20 Percent’ Employee Project Ever?

In June I shared 30 ways that the winners and finalists of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces award use to assess their payoff of employee engagement best practices investment.  Number 12 on my list was Greater share of projects employees undertake as part of a Google-style "20 percent" program result in new, bottom line-enhancing [...]

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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 [...]

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Close to 10 Percent of Our 2010 Small Biz Award Applicants Have Had No Layoffs in the Last 3 Years

This new article on CNNMoney.com profiles six companies on Fortune magazine’s 2010 "100 Best Companies to Work For" list that have never had a layoff. I’m guessing six is the total number on Fortune‘s 2010 list, or this article would have touted and profiled more firms.  A 6% no-layoff (ever!) rate is indeed pretty impressive, [...]

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