{"id":846,"date":"2012-03-13T06:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisestrategies.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2015-07-26T23:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T23:09:58","slug":"employee-engagement-why-surveys-and-ice-cream-cant-cut-it-in-todays-corporate-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisestrategies.com\/2012\/03\/13\/employee-engagement-why-surveys-and-ice-cream-cant-cut-it-in-todays-corporate-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Engagement: Why surveys and ice cream can\u2019t cut it in today\u2019s corporate cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"
Employee engagement is more than a buzzword in human resources departments. As a growing body of evidence shows, and the folks at Gallup<\/a> put so well, \u201cengaged employees are more productive. They are more profitable, more customer-focused, safer, and more likely to withstand temptations to leave.\u201d A robust, effective employee engagement strategy is married to corporate goals and the tools associated with those strategies are changing for the better. Enterprise social media is a big player in that toolbox and it helps to have some good employee engagement ideas<\/a> up your sleeve to make sure your employees are productive.<\/p>\n In case you aren\u2019t a believer in the power of engagement, consider that employees who aren\u2019t engaged or are \u2014 the even more destructive category \u2014 \u201cactively disengaged\u201d can lead to the following at your workplace:<\/p>\n Employees who aren\u2019t engaged believe what they are doing is a lost cause. They worry that they are in a fight with their coworkers to keep their jobs. They don\u2019t feel like their work matters, so they aren\u2019t doing their best. They don\u2019t show up at social events or volunteer days because they don\u2019t feel like a part of the team. Actively disengaged employees have similar attitudes and behaviors, only they share their disgruntled attitudes and poison the engagement water, giving it no chance of nourishing all the attributes of engagement.<\/p>\n For decades, human resources departments and managers have relied on traditional means to gauge employee engagement levels, almost to a fault. Engagement tactics such as events and surveys can sometimes feel a lot like voluntary coercion. Employees are welcome to attend the ice cream social, as long as they mingle, relax and still manage to meet their tight deadlines for the day. Likewise, employees are free to answer questions on an employee engagement survey honestly, as long as they are the answers management wants to hear.<\/p>\n\n