People - Employee Engagement & Retention Flashcards
Employee Engagement
a measurement of an employee’s involvement, satisfaction, happiness, and loyalty.
Employee Life Cycle
All activities associated w/ the employee’s tenure or time w/ an organization
Attraction Recruitment Onboarding Development Retention Separation Alumni
Performance Management
Process used to facilitate consistent improvements in the employee performance.
Performance Standards
Clarify what employees are expected to achieve and how they will be measured.
Performance Appraisals
A formal way of providing feedback to and receiving feedback from employees.
Has three purposes:
- provide feedback and counseling
- help in allocating rewards and opportunities
- help in determining EEs aspirations and planning development needs
Retention Threshold
How soon new hires leave the company.
Stay Interviews
Employee/manager meetings to identify and intervene before an employee decides to leave.
Schaufeli and Bakker’s View on EE Engagement
Vigor: EEs show high levels of energy and invest effort into their work.
Dedication: EEs are involved in their work and have a sense of pride and enthusiasm about it.
Absorption: EEs are fully concentrated on and completely engrossed in their work.
Macey and Schneider view on EE Engagement
Trait Engagement: the inherent personality based elements that make an individual predisposed to being engaged
State Engagement: influenced by workplace conditions or practices
Behavioral Engagement: the effort EEs put into their jobs, which leads to greater value, creating higher performance than from their less engaged counterparts–can occur when both trait and state engagement are present
Benefits of EE Engagement
- increase profitability
- thefts decrease
- absenteeism decrease
- defects decrease
Drivers of EE Engagement
- The work itself
- Confidence and trust in leadership
- Recognition and reward
- Orgz communication that is delivered timely
The Aon Hewitt Engagement Model
Say–speak positively
Stay–have an intense sense of belonging
Strive–are motivated to succeed
Types of Orgz Culture
Authoritarian: power resides with top level mgmt
Mechanistic: tasks are defined clearly and shaped by formal rules
Participative: collaborate decision making or group problem solving
Learning: the increase of knowledge
High Performance: talent is championed
Questions to answer when gathering information about EE engagement
- What orgz culture have we created?
- Does this culture support achievements of our strategic goals?
- How can the orgz culture be expressed in a way that increases EE engagement?
Management Competencies for Enhancing EE Engagement
- Supporting EE growth: automony, development, feedback, recognition
- Interpersonal style: individual interest, availability, personnal matter, ethics
- Monitoring direction: reviewing and guiding, clarifying expectations, managing time and resources, following processes/procedures
Business Case for EE Engagement
- Commit long term: need sustained efforts over time
- Measure consistently: measurement of engagement and progress towards goals should happen consistently
- Connect engagement to business results: communication of how engagement influences orgz outcomes
- Seek employee input: EEs have the opportunity to provide input
- Gain leadership support: need support from leadership