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Why Goodness Matters
FIVE WAYS TO BOOST EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Engagement, or lack thereof, is a topic that’s always top-of-mind
for today’s HR professionals.
According to Gallup’s most recent State of the Global
Workplace report, “Eighty-five per cent of employees are
not engaged or actively disengaged at work,” – an issue that’s
estimated to cost organizations approximately $7 trillion in lost
productivity worldwide.
Companies continue to try a myriad of approaches to solve dis-engagement
– from fun perks like free food deliveries and office
ping pong tables to team building exercises, benefits and more –
but does this really address the root cause?
It turns out that altruistic purpose may be a better driver of
engagement than perks. Increasingly, today’s socially-conscious
generation of workers want their jobs to have meaning beyond just
“making a living.” A recent study on employee engagement found
that 74 per cent of employees surveyed “say their job is more ful-filling
when they are provided opportunities to make a positive
impact at work.” For Millennials – soon to be the largest segment
of the global workforce – the percentage with this response was
even higher at 88 per cent.
And just as employees’ expectations are changing, the corporate
landscape is changing too. As traditional, top-down organiza-tional
structures are giving way to more egalitarian, team-based
environments that value innovation and collaboration, more com-panies
are looking for ways to create an inspiring, purpose-driven
workplace culture.
By Vivian Farris
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HRPROFESSIONALNOW.CA ❚ AUGUST 2018 ❚ 27
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