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RP members as we know employee engagement is a property of the relationship between an organization and its employees. An "engaged employee" is defined as one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organization's reputation and interests.
Describe what makes an employee highly engaged and its importance in today's workplace?
Describe what makes an employee highly engaged and its importance in today's workplace?
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Edited 8 y ago
Posted 8 y ago
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On first take I'd say employee engagement is more a factor of the organization than the employee. Your graphic is exceptional but if the organization does not have a culture that fosters engagement your employees will have a difficult time moving from the low engagement to the high engagement side. Unfortunately not all organizations are looking for their employees, especially at lower levels, to be engaged, they want the assigned task to be completed in a timely manner period. I don't think that this is necessarily the best business plan, but in my opinion and from my observations this appears to be more common than the highly engaged business model.
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SSG (Join to see) - Either you didn't understand what I'm saying or I'm glad you were never my team leader. When a salesman sells a product that DOES NOT meet customer specifications, and it's my job to install it, I have a choice of sacrificing my integrity or my loyalty, which is exactly what I told my boss. I don't believe it's any different in the military. If leadership is doing something that DOESN'T meet commander's intent, or is WRONG subordinates must speak up. That doesn't mean that leadership has to listen or will, but if they feel threatened by the fact that someone spoke up, they aren't looking for engaged employees or soldiers, they're looking for soulless robots.
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SSgt (Join to see) - OK I did not understand I did not see where u said there was a problem with the service or product that was being sold. In that case all you can do, and I would do it also is to let management know the situation. What sucks is at the end of the day you work for them, and they may have you do what you consider sub standard work anyway . Now o get it I hate that also.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
I get it and I agree, but as I originally said, not every organization buys in to employee engagement. To put it in terms we may have all run in to: if there is any type of issue you experience and the employee response is I have to ask my supervisor, you are not dealing with a company that buys in to employee engagement. An engaged organization allows the person to do whatever is needed, without consultation. In a perfect world all companies would have engaged employees, but the fact, as Sgt Brainerd said, is most only want engagement that meets their short term goals, if at all.
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Highly engaged people generally understand the organization. They learn their section and see the interconnectivity with others. The rest is on how hard they want to work.
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One needs to be inspired by both what they are doing and whom they are doing it with.
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