How to promote staff engagement and avoid the risk of burnout

Organisations are working harder than ever to engage employees, but how can line managers promote healthy engagement while avoiding the risk of burnout?

Comprehensive Spending Review will put pressure on managers to bolster engagement and motivation, says CIPD

The unprecedented scale of change set out in the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) cannot be delivered without a concerted and committed focus on supporting, bolstering and improving...

HMV staff get chance to show their musical talent

HMV has launched a contest for staff to engage them with a passion for music.

It's not enough to measure employee engagement, you have to act on the results

While many organisations are gathering information on employee engagement, only a few are actually linking feedback to action and managing to increase scores.

UK lags behind the rest of the world when it comes to engaging staff

The UK scores 'significantly lower' than other countries when it comes to employee engagement and job security, according to a new report.

Employee trust decimated in organisations with redundancy rounds

Employees whose organisations have been particularly hard hit by the recession have extremely low levels of trust in their CEOs and blame these troubles on poor management.

Exclusive: How the UN plans to harness employee engagement on a global scale

The United Nations is turning to the lessons from employee engagement to help it deliver its eight Millennium goals. Wayne Clarke, managing partner of Best Companies Partnership, reports live from the...

Bosses should see the World Cup as a great opportunity for employee engagement, says CMI

Employers fear the World Cup could cost UK business up to 1 billion in lost working hours, but figures from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), show anxious employers are 'missing a trick'.

Diversity: Treat each employee as a workforce of one

Each employee is unique. But while most employers acknowledge the diversity that exists on standard demographic dimensions such as generation, gender and ethnicity, few organisations recognise that...

Employee engagement needs to be high on the agenda when resources are limited

Pay cuts, recruitment freezes, slashed budgets, redundancies and the promise of worse to come. Many organisations have already had a tough couple of years but the white-knuckle ride seems set to...

Baringa Partners tops the Best Place to Work list

A little-known consultancy in the energy, utilities and financial services sector has scooped the UK's Best Place to Work award by the Great Place to Work Institute.

Exclusive: Employee engagement slumps to the levels of 2008

UK staff are less engaged than they were in 2009 - at the height of the recession, according to research revealed exclusively to HR magazine.