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2. Defining Employee Engagement and Making the
Case for It
There is no such thing as a standard definition of employee engagement.
But mostly everyone agrees that employee engagement involves a
workplace in which workers:
But mostly everyone
agrees that employee
• Feel personally and emotionally bound to the organization
engagement involves a
workplace in which
• Feel pride in recommending it as a good place to work to other workers:
people
• Feel personally and
emotionally bound to
• Get more than just wage or salary from working there and are the organization
attached to the intrinsic rewards they gain from being with the
• Feel pride in
organization, and recommending it as a
good place to work to
• Feel a close attachment to the values, ethics and actions embodied by other people
the organization • Get more than just
wage or salary from
In some respects, it may be easier to define the toxic workplace than to working there and are
describe a fully engaging workplace. Perhaps the best embodiment of attached to the
such a bad place and the unusual behavior it can engender was the 1853 intrinsic rewards they
Herman Melville story “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street.” A gain from being with
the organization, and
scrivener in those days was akin to a legal clerk. The story is about a
• Feel a close
manager in a law office who hires an employee named Bartleby, hoping
attachment to the
that his seemingly even temperament would bring a calming influence to values, ethics and
his other law clerks. But the manager soon learns, to his dismay, that actions embodied by
Bartleby has moved into the office and lives there full-time. His life lacks the organization
all meaning or purpose. He rejects a growing number of work duties with
a simple “I prefer not to.” Eventually he does no work at all because he
prefers to do nothing. The manager finds it impossible to get rid of The Dale Carnegie®
Bartleby, so he moves the law office. Even then Bartleby refuses to move, Perspective …
is eventually thrown in prison for that refusal, and finally starves to death
Dale Carnegie espouses
because eating is something he “prefers not to” do. the responsibility
assumption. What you
believe about other
people affects their
behavior. If you want
them to change, you
must change your own
attitudes about them
and then display that in
your behavior. If
managers want to
encourage high
engagement, they must
believe it exists with
their workers and act
accordingly.
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3. Why should managers and workers care about engagement? One reason
is that high levels of employee engagement lead to lower turnover rates,
since there is a close link between company image and individual self-
image in highly engaging workplaces. Without close attachments to the
workplace, people feel alienated and will usually seek greener pastures
elsewhere. A second reason is that it just makes sense to conclude that
workplaces in which employees have a high level of self-interest invested
in the organization’s success will be highly productive, a fact that research
supports (Globoforce Survey Results, 2007). A third reason is that a high
engagement workplace (HEW) is one in which people want to work and
want to be highly involved because self-interest and organizational
interest are closely aligned. A fourth reason is that, according to Gallup
research, there is a high correlation between innovation and workplaces
with high levels of engagement (Gallup Reveals the Formula for
Innovation, 2007).
Beyond Rules of Engagement Page 3
4. What Research Indicates About Employee
Engagement
According to Profiles International—Imagine Great PeopleTM study, about
$350 billion per year is lost because of employee disengagement. This
$2.3 million study examined 8,000 employees in a cross-section of
industries. The findings indicated that workers could really be classified
into six major groups:
• Detached Contributors—15% (national average). These people see
the value of work for its near-term economic benefit.
• Stalled Optimists—19% (national average). For this segment, work is
a source of livelihood but not yet (or not currently) a satisfying priority
in their lives.
• Maverick Contributors—15% (national average). For Maverick
Contributors, work is one of the multiple opportunities they have for
change and excitement in their lives.
• Self-Empowered Innovators—14% (national average). To them, work
is about creating something with lasting value beyond themselves.
• Fair & Square Traditionalists—20% (national average). Work is
about upward mobility—a predictable upward mobile path to success.
• Accomplished Contributors—17% (national average). For these people, The Dale Carnegie®
work is an opportunity to be a valuable part of a winning team. Perspective …
Managers play a major role in establishing and maintaining an engaging Dale Carnegie once said
workplace. Building an engaging work climate is not something that the that “Any fool can
HR department does. Rather, managers play an active—and daily—role in criticize, condemn, and
complain, but it takes
the climate. If managers focus on the positive with their workers, they character and self
foster an engaging work climate. But if managers constantly criticize control to be
workers, micromanage what they do, and fail to recognize their efforts, understanding and
then the managers’ behaviors swell the ranks of not engaged and actively forgiving.” He also said
disengaged workers. “act enthusiastic, and
you will be enthusiastic.”
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5. Organizational Practices to Encourage Employee
Engagement
Employee engagement programs are like other things: you get out of it
what you put into it. If organizational leaders expect instant results from
such programs, then they are pursuing a flavor of the month. True
change requires long-term commitment to the effort.
The evidence suggests that workers are growing increasingly cynical
because they see their leaders too often saying one thing and doing Insight …
another—and too often chasing fads and expecting instant gratification The evidence suggests
from them (Lines, 2005). Rather than point their fingers at workers alone, that workers are
the leaders must first “walk the walk and talk the talk.” What managers growing increasingly
do and how they behave sets the tone for employee engagement. The cynical because they
see their leaders too
first lesson is that workers model their leaders’ behavior. If leaders are
often saying one thing
not fully engaged, workers will not be either. Managers must model the and doing another.
level of engagement they seek. And HR’s role is to serve as coach to
managers when they do otherwise.
Every element of the organization needs to be reconsidered for how
much it fosters engagement. Managers and other organizational leaders Three Major Pitfalls to
should consider how workers are: Avoid When Trying to
Increase Employee
• Recruited Engagement
• Selected Do Not Assume:
• Given feedback 1. This is an issue that
can be handed off to
the HR department
• Rewarded
without significant
line management
• Promoted involvement.
• Recognized for accomplishments 2. That higher salaries
alone will increase
• Emotionally invested in the organization’s mission engagement.
• Socially involved with peers 3. That employee work
ethic, or lack of it, is
• Included in a highly cohesive team the root cause of
problems with
• Socially involved with their immediate supervisor engagement. That
amounts to blaming
• Proud to recommend the organization’s products, services or the worker rather
than having
employment to others management accept
accountability to do
• Proud when the organization is recognized for excellence something to improve
engagement.
Beyond Rules of Engagement Page 5
6. Building a fully engaging workplace requires a change effort—an
Organizational Development (OD) intervention—that is intended to build
a new corporate culture. As in most OD interventions, organizational
leaders should focus on building commitment by building involvement.
They must sacrifice attention on getting results that they define to
getting results that they and workers jointly define (Rothwell and Sullivan,
2005). The key is a focus on interpersonal relationships—how things are
done and how people work together—rather than the shorter but less
effective approach of dictating the outcomes desired.
Five Things an
Organization Can Do
to Ensure Success in
Improving Employee
Engagement
1. Create a corporate
culture that encourages
engagement
2. Measure employee
engagement
periodically
3. Develop action plans
by organization,
department and
individual to address
the root causes of
problems that lead to
employee
disengagement
4. Hold people
accountable for
demonstrating
progress in building
engagement
5. Reward those who
demonstrate progress
in building
engagement (while
remembering that
not all rewards need
to be financial)
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7. Moving Beyond Individual Engagement to Create a
Corporate Culture of Engagement
Individuals, coworkers, managers, HR departments, and top managers
should be considered when attempting to build a climate of full
engagement.
Engagement and the Individual The Dale Carnegie®
Perspective …
A common mistake that many managers make is to focus solely on what
is wrong with individuals who demonstrate a lack of commitment. But, Dale Carnegie once said
instead of doing that, they should instead ask, “Why are some people not that “It isn’t what you
engaged or actively disengaged?” Granted, there are occasions when lack have, or who you are, or
of engagement is solely attributable to the individual. The person simply where you are, or what
you are doing that
has a bad attitude or lacks awareness of what impact his or her makes you happy or
contribution makes to other workers, the organization as a whole, unhappy. It is what you
customers, distributors, suppliers or the community. But the question to think about.”
ask is this: Was the person hired that way, or did something happen in the
organization that prompted that attitude? If the person was hired that
way, the organization should revisit its recruitment and selection methods.
Is any effort made to look for evidence of high engagement in the work
history of job applicants? If the person was not hired that way, what
experiences in the organization made him or her that way? How could
the issues of those past experiences be addressed?
The individual who demonstrates full engagement will: The Dale Carnegie®
Perspective …
• Emphasize the positive about the organization—what is going right
The most famous
Dale Carnegie®
• Look for occasions to say good things about the organization, program is the
manager, department or people “Dale Carnegie®
Course: Effective
• Volunteer for extra duties Communications &
Human Relations.” It
• Express approval about what the organization is doing and why it is builds effective
doing it interpersonal skills,
essential to employee
• Speak highly of the organization to coworkers, friends, relatives, and engagement. The
program can be
members of the community
offered in-house for
maximum impact to
address the needs of
many managers or
other leaders at the
same time.
Beyond Rules of Engagement Page 7
8. Engagement and Coworkers
Peers play an important role in influencing the attitudes of their peers.
Human beings do sometimes exercise a herd instinct, and that instinct
can be seen in the influence of peers.
The stories that workers tell about their supervisors, the organization, the
customers, and important issues affecting the work setting (such as how
Insight …
pay raises are allocated, work is done, or the value of the work itself) can
influence people from the first day on the job. If a new hire is paired up Peers play an important
with an actively disengaged worker, it should come as no surprise if the role in influencing the
new hire comes to have a jaundiced view of the organization. For that attitudes of their peers.
reason, great care should be taken in how new hires are introduced to the
workplace—and by whom.
Coworkers who demonstrate the right example of engagement will:
• Ask questions about the person each day to show he or she cares
• Listen for feelings as well as facts—and follow up to show a willingness
to help
• Invite coworkers out for social occasions
• Work for the inclusiveness of everyone rather than encouraging
“cliques”
• Stress the positive
• Refuse to listen to self-deprecation and focus on what a new hire or
other workers do right
• Refuse to pass bad gossip about others
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9. Engagement and the Manager
How managers behave impacts what employees feel. An employee’s
attitude about the workplace and the organization is influenced
dramatically by what his or her boss says and does.
If the immediate supervisor takes joy in workers’ accomplishments,
emphasizes what is right, makes an effort to catch people doing
Insight …
something right and praise them for it, and regularly takes steps to
recognize and fairly reward achievement, then workers will feel that their If the immediate
efforts do matter. But if managers are distant, seldom straying from their supervisor takes joy in
offices or from meetings, and provide feedback only when it is negative, workers’
then the manager’s behavior is creating a toxic workplace rather than an accomplishments,
emphasizes what is
engaged workplace. right, makes an effort to
catch people doing
Managers who build the right climate will: something right and
praise them for it, and
• Recruit and select people in part based on their track record of regularly takes steps to
engagement with past employers recognize and fairly
reward achievement,
• Ask questions about what people feel about the organization, work, then workers will feel
customers and other key issues, and then take steps to remove that their efforts do
matter.
barriers to results
• Focus on identifying individual strengths and leveraging those to the
advantage of the individual, team, and organization
• Recognize achievement rather than envying it or trying to steal the
credit for it
• Develop people for engagement as well as for knowledge and skills
• Provide encouragement when people seem to be unhappy or
disappointed
Beyond Rules of Engagement Page 9
10. Engagement and the HR Department
In a fully engaging workplace, the HR department will fully support
engagement and will downplay or try to find ways to avoid those actions
that appear to show a punitive or toxic climate. The ways to do that are to:
• Recruit and prescreen for behaviors associated with full engagement
• Survey the organization periodically to find strengths and areas for
improvement
• Encourage people to focus on the positive
• Encourage people to identify their own strengths and leverage them Insight …
• Encourage people to identify the strengths of their supervisors and In a fully engaging
learn from them workplace, the HR
department will fully
• Encourage managers and others to be positive role models support engagement
and will downplay or try
• Coach individuals when their behavior demonstrates something other to find ways to avoid
than full engagement those actions that
appear to show a
punitive or toxic climate.
• Role model what full engagement should look like in word and deed
• Establish planned engagement programs and help to coordinate them
• Conduct exit interviews to find out the real root causes for individuals
to leave
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11. Engagement and Top Managers
In a fully engaging workplace, top managers will fully support
engagement. They will:
• Role model what full engagement looks like
• Find occasions to praise people for what they do right
• Encourage individual and organizational development
• Recognize achievements publicly
Insight …
• Discuss problems privately
A real goal of
• Emphasize the positive employee engagement
should be to establish
• Provide the resources to make a planned engagement a joint organizational
program happen vision, excite people to
realize that vision,
• Personally devote time and attention to encouraging engagement explore practical ways
to make that vision a
• Coach individuals who do not demonstrate behaviors that encourage reality, and work
toward implementing
engagement that vision.
A real goal of employee engagement should be to establish a joint
organizational vision, excite people to realize that vision, explore practical
ways to make that vision a reality, and work toward implementing that
vision. This approach to organizational change is called appreciative
inquiry or positive change theory. Applying it to organizational and
individual change is a way to move employee engagement from a dream
to a reality.
Engagement and the Organization
Concerted action is required by the whole organization—not just
individuals or isolated groups—to address engagement issues. It must
be approached systematically as part of a “whole systems transformation
effort” that tries to unleash individual, group and organizational
engagement. Management’s role is to discover what disengages people
and try to knock down those barriers—or perceptions of barriers. HR can
facilitate the process, and individuals can accept responsibility to do
soul-searching, find what will engage them more, and work to realize
those goals.
Beyond Rules of Engagement Page 11
12. Conclusion
Engagement is not the latest fad. But it can become a fad if it is
undertaken without role modeling what full engagement looks like and
expecting instant results. Building a climate of engagement should be the
focus. Individuals should not be held to blame; rather, an organization’s
leaders should re-examine everything that the organization does to
support full engagement and what has happened that may have Insight …
contributed to alienation. By doing so, leaders will show their genuine Engagement is not the
commitment to engagement and will be effective role models for it. latest fad. But it can
become a fad if it is
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