William H. Macey, Benjamin Schneider, Karen M. Barbera, Scott A. Young

eBook, PDF

Employee Engagement (eBook, PDF)

Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage

Beschreibung

Providing both practical advice, tools, and case examples, Employee Engagement translates best practices, ideas, and concepts into concrete and practical steps that will change the level of engagement in any organization.

• Explores the meaning of engagement and how engagement differs significantly from other important yet related concepts like satisfaction and commitment
• Discusses what it means to create a culture of engagement
• Provides a practical presentation deck and talking points managers can use to introduce the concept of engagement in their organization
• Addresses issues of work-life balance, and non-work activities and their relationship to engagement at work

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

William H. Macey is CEO of Valtera and has thirty years of experience consulting with organizations to design and implement survey research programs.

Benjamin Schneider is Senior Research Fellow at Valtera and Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland.

Karen M. Barbera is a Managing Principal at Valtera Corporation, responsible for overseeing the practice group focused on employee engagement surveys and organizational diagnostics.

Scott A. Young is a Managing Consultant at Valtera Corporation, where he consults with the firm's organizational survey clients on content development and measurement, reporting and interpretation of results, research, and action planning.

Series Editor: Steven G. Rogelberg, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Organizational Science, at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He is a prolific and nationally recognized scholar. Besides his academic work, he founded and/or led three successful talent management consulting organizations/units.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444306545
• Artikelnr.: 37350170

Rezensionen

"Macey and his colleagues provide a fascinating analysis ofengagement -- what it means, why it works, and, most importantly,how to create and maintain an engaged workforce."
-Fritz Drasgow, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

"Employee Engagement walks us through the complexity ofthis deceptively simple concept and makes concrete the process oftranslating engagement into hard financial results."
-Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School, University ofPennsylvania

"A hugely important topic, handled with just the right mix ofscholarly insight and practical experience. This book is a valuableaddition to the literature."
-Jeffery S. Schippmann, Balfour BeattyConstruction

"If you want to increase employee engagement to achieve yourorganization's strategic objectives this is the book for you. Itdeconstructs what engagement really means, explains what factorsshape it, shows how to diagnose your organization current state andtell you what managerial levers you can use to increase it andconsequently raise organizational performance. This book is at oncescientifically sound and highly readable."
-Michael Beer, Harvard Business School

"No one knows more about Employee Engagement, in all its forms,than do these authors. They give careful, useful and practicaladvice on using employee opinion surveys to measure and increaseemployee engagement! "
-Allen I. Kraut, Baruch College, C.U.N.Y.