Research shows that ineffective managers damage employee engagement. This research is not surprising! It is difficult for any employee to have a highly positive emotional connection to his organization if he feels he is being treated badly by his boss. Employees are more likely to be engaged when they work for a manager who creates a positive work environment for them to work.
As the following infographic from the National Business Research Institute (NBRI) shows, the cost of disengaged employees to organizations is high. Instead of giving greater effort to meeting the organization’s objectives, many of these employees will go into survival mode. As they continue to work in this negative environment, they begin to engage in more non-productive activities. For this reason, senior leaders and operational managers need to pay more than lip service to improving employee engagement.
How to Improve Employee Engagement
Fortunately, the remedy for poor employee engagement is better organizational leadership and management. While pay and benefits are critical to employee engagement, good pay and benefits alone have limited motivational value. To obtain more engagement from their employees, organizations need better leadership and management. The benefits of employee engagement are many.
Infographic courtesy of Visualy.ly.
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