Best Practices: Employee Assessment
As part of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s commitment to an open-source approach to information sharing on the implementation steps for stakeholder management, this begins an ongoing series featuring specific chapters in the EEA’s two books, Enterprise Engagement: The Roadmap 5th edition, by Bruce Bolger, Allan Schweyer, and Richard Kern, and Enterprise Engagement for CEOs, by Bruce Bolger.Click here for links to RRN Preferred Solution Providers.
Enterprise Engagement: The Roadmap is the guidebook for any organization seeking to implement the “Social” of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) management, increasingly known as Stakeholder Capitalism. It is designed for any management in charge of making the shift toward a stakeholder approach to management and value creation.
The book is included with the EEA PurposePoint Academy membership library or can be purchased online.
This is an excerpt from Chapter 14, Employee Assessment. Select chapters will be featured in the coming weeks and throughout the year.
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The research is clear: Engagement provides a long-term competitive advantage. In 2005, a milestone book, The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want, by Dr. David Sirota made headlines across corporate America. Sirota gathered never-before-published case studies, more than 30 years of employee attitude research, and data from 920,000 employees from 28 multinational companies. This data showed that the share prices of firms with highly engaged employees increased an average of 16% in 2004, compared with an industry average of 6%. Stock prices of companies with high morale outperformed similar companies in the same industries by more than 2½-to-1 during 2004, while the stock prices of companies with low morale lagged behind their industry competitors by a ratio of almost 5-to-1.
A Towers Watson study in August 2005 looked at 85,000 people employed in large and midsize companies in 16 countries on four continents. It showed there is a vast reserve of untapped “employee performance potential” that can drive better financial results if companies can successfully tap into this reserve. The study also showed that highly engaged workers believe they contribute more directly to business results than less engaged employees. For instance:
- 84% of highly engaged employees believe they can positively impact the quality of their company’s products, compared with 31% of disengaged workers.
- 72% of the highly engaged believe they can positively affect customer service, vs. only 27% of the disengaged.
- 68% of the highly engaged believe they can positively impact costs in their job or unit, vs. just 19% of the disengaged.
Click here for the full chapter.
The book is included with the EEA PurposePoint Academy membership library or can be purchased online.
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