Employee engagement is influenced by many factors—from workplace culture, organizational communication, and managerial styles to trust and respect, leadership, and company reputation.It's important to understand what is employee engagement, as well as what influences it.
The Roles of HR and Management in Employee Engagement
In combination and individually, HR professionals and managers play important roles in ensuring the success of the organization's employee engagement initiatives.
In fact, it's up to HR and management to implement strategies for employee engagement.
The Role of HR
To foster a culture of engagement, HR should lead the way in the design, measurement and evaluation of proactive workplace policies and practices that help attract and retain talent with skills and competencies necessary for growth and sustainability.
The Role of Managers
Middle managers play a key role in employee engagement, creating a respectful and trusting relationship with their direct reports, communicating company values, and setting expectations for the day-to-day business of any organization.
Studies show that people leave managers, not companies, and ensuring managers are actively participating in and managing employee engagement is paramount.
But middle managers need to be empowered by being given larger responsibilities, trained for their expanded roles, and more involved in strategic decisions.
If an organization's executives and HR professionals want to hold managers accountable for the engagement levels, they should:
- Make sure that managers and employees have the tools to do their jobs correctly.
- Periodically assign managers larger, more exciting roles.
- Give managers appropriate authority.
- Accelerate leadership development efforts.
- Ask managers to convey the corporate mission and vision and to help transform the organization.
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