[thanks to Scott Adams for being so astute about HR issues & for the use of his intellectual property]
My thesis is that most have no idea what is meant by employee engagement:
That employee engagement isn’t something that company leaders can inspire just by being leaders.
That engagement is not an HR initiative that can be turned into talking points at a SHRM conference. Or an article on Forbes.
That when turned into an intellectualized topic for a weekly Twitter chat sounds phony.
That employee engagement is something that can only be inculcated into a company via better recruiting.
I won’t bore you with paragraph after paragraph by “experts” extolling the importance of engagement to company performance or how many rockstar leaders are quoted as saying the engagement is important. But let me go to the well just once with an article penned by Josh Bersin from Deloitte, “