This document presents three facts about employee engagement: 1) US companies spend $720 million annually on engagement initiatives with limited success, 2) only 32% of US workers and 13% worldwide are engaged, and 3) employers focus on intrinsic motivations that employees are ultimately responsible for themselves. It argues that the billion dollar employee engagement industry should be disrupted by replacing "engagement" with the concept of an "employee alliance", which frames the relationship as a mutually beneficial partnership where both parties take responsibility for driving workforce motivation. This alliance model shifts the focus to individual accountability for engagement rather than an employer's unrequited attempts to influence intrinsic factors.
6. *FACT 3
US : 32%
Worldwide : 13%
*http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/188033/worldwide-employee-engagement-crisis.aspx
7. Isn’t this
Employers are spending their
resources to influence factors
(motivation, happiness) that
are intrinsic
one way love?
Is employee engagement
(even) the right
construct?
10. EMPLOYEE ALLIANCE
A psychological contract between employee and employer
A mutually beneficial alliance that holds both employee and
employer responsible for driving a motivated , engaged workforce
Brings in concepts of individual accountability (responsibility) into the
engagement dialogue
You are responsible for your engagement
Turns unrequited love into a LOVE STORY!
Any guesses on what are we going to talk about in the next 5 mins?
How many of us think the center for the above sits outside of us?
How many of us think the center for the above sits outside of us?
https://www.eremedia.com/tlnt/weekly-wrap-720-million-spent-on-engagement-and-this-is-all-we-get/
Organizations are spending nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars per year trying to improve employee engagement — and that only represents about half of the $1.53 billion that Bersin projects that companies will eventually spend on it.