Employee Engagement Research & Sources
If you’ve read any form of leadership literature over the past year there’s a good chance you’ve heard about the epidemic that is sweeping the globe, and has been for some time. No country is safe – whether it is a first world country with all the benefits a person could want, or a third world country where workers are truly exploited.
That epidemic is employee engagement.
Low engagement across the world in what should be a meaningful endeavor – work, has strangled productivity and is robbing employees around the world of their energy and happiness. You see, it’s only in the last 100 years that work has really been separate from the management and planning. And that separation has led to meaningless work, separated from the customers who benefit or the outcomes they produce.
Now more than 70% of employees, even in first world countries, are disengaged in their work.
I’ve put together a manifesto with a clear step-by-step guide to improving employee engagement, and below are the sources for research that all point to the same thing: We crave clarity, regular checking in from our leaders where they focus on our strengths, and continuous improvement, and despite what you may have experienced the meaning we can get from normal every day jobs runs very deep.
Let’s check it out!
- The State of the Global Workplace, Gallup
- Growth Mindset
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Hertzberg’s Two Factor Theory
- Happiness, income satiation and turning points around the world
- High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being
- Eustress versus Distress
- Harvard Forces of Employee Engagement
- Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation
- SWOT Analysis For Management Consulting (Albert Humphrey)
- Do Employees Really Know What’s Expected of Them? Gallup
- The Million Dollar Checklist: Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections
- The Person and the Situation – effects of environment on motivation
- Universal and Cultural Dimensions of Optimal Experiences
- Motivating Language Theory
- The Art of Motivating Employees
- Driving Engagement by Focusing on Strengths
- Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance
- Harvard, The Easiest Way To Change People’s Behavior
- Timing Matters: The Impact of Immediate and Delayed Feedback on Learning
- The Power of Feedback
- Google’s research on Clarity and Meaning
First, the statistics on the current engagement epidemic.