Less than half of HR professionals have employee engagement strategy

Although the majority of HR professionals state employee engagement is a high priority, almost half don't have a strategy for one in place, according to research published by HR software and solutions...

Public sector can improve engagement by involving entire workforce in strategic decisions

Last month’s HR magazine provided some inspirational articles all about boosting employee engagement. They all had one common theme: fully engaged employees deliver more when they feel valued. It...

Whose job is employee engagement: HR, CEO or dedicated head of engagement?

In November last year, 40 prominent business leaders from organisations as diverse as Sainsbury’s, the NHS and BAE Systems signed an open letter to the Times.

Engagement special: Veronica Hope-Hailey on defining engagement

If one adopts a general definition of employee engagement as employees giving additional, discretionary effort at work, what’s not to like? Engagement can drive innovation and performance – essential...

Engagement special: do SMEs need to 'get' engagement?

It’s not often that Nita Clarke, co-chair of the Government’s Employee Engagement Taskforce, is on the back foot. But even Clarke, in spite of all the plaudits that she and David MacLeod have received...

Engagement Special: David MacLeod and Nita Clarke on Engage for Success

At the launch of Government-backed movement Engage for Success in November last year, a powerful video was shown. In it, a young man rails to the camera about how organisations in the UK should “give...

Engagement special: Jason Holt on what engagement means to SMEs

In the second of our five-day Engagement Special, we catch up with founder of jewellery company Holts Group and founder of the not-for-profit social enterprise Holt's Academy of Jewellery, Jason Holt...

Engagement special: Is this the world's biggest engagement scheme?

In the first of our five-day feature series on engagement, we talk to Ken Allen (pictured), CEO of DHL Express, who has just invested €100 million in a company-wide engagement initiative.

The recession has tested some of the cosier rhetoric around employee engagement

In March 2009, in Pontonx-sur-l’Adour, south-west France, Serge Foucher, CEO of Sony France, was taken hostage by workers in one of the company’s factories, which was due to close with the loss of...

Is it HR's role to engage employees?

Speaking last year at the official launch event of the Engage for Success taskforce, ITV chairman Archie Norman said employee engagement should not be an HR activity, it should be company-wide.

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If engagement is left as a purely HR initiative, it will remain on the sidelines

Speaking last year at the official launch event of the Engage for Success taskforce, ITV chairman Archie Norman said employee engagement should not be an HR activity, it should be company-wide.

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"Work made fun gets done" sums up the preconditions of an engaged workforce, says David Fairhurst

Employee engagement is the most important issue the HR community has to resolve if we are to maintain credibility with our peers in other disciplines.