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The HR, along with the management, can actively convert disengaged and not engaged employees into engaged employees. I have analyzed some of the crucial factors that act as barriers to employee engagement in an organization.
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Well done, Nazneen. You are quite right. Employees, when they first join a company, are fully engaged. However, they then encounter barriers and quickly become disengaged. By removing these barriers, they can magically become engaged.

The biggest barrier is the use of the traditional top-down command and control approach to managing people because it tends to demotivate and demoralize employees. I used that for my first 12 years, then transitioned to its opposite—call it Autonomy and Support. This change led to significant increases in employee performance and allowed me to realize that the top-down approach had actually caused most of the problems I was trying to fix.

In my last turnaround as the executive of a 1300-person unionized group, productivity increased by over 300%, morale and innovation soared, most employees literally loved coming to work, and we were able to outperform our competition.

You are absolutely right, Nazneen.

Best regards, Ben Simonton

Author of "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed" [URL="http://www.bensimonton.com"]

From United States, Tampa
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Hi
That is a crisp and pointed sharing. Unfortunately we do not have too many enlightened managements who would be willing to honestly answer the questions raised by you in your attachment.
Perhaps enabling senior managers the opportunity to go through a program on mentoring and motivation would be a very effective way to ensure that they enable the employee engagement process consciously at least.
Employees reading this post could perhaps feel motivated and charged up by going through the contents of the following Inspirational blogs
www.actspot.wordpress.com – Over 1,19,000 views and 740 followers
www.poweract.blogspot.com – Over 37,000 views and 195 followers
Regards

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I agree 100% with you Nazneen. You angle of what are the barriers to employee engagement is quite valid. Personally, when I’m disengaged it’s because of blurred job roles. That’s ironic having in mind how all the processes in my company are optimized and I’m disengaged because of this unusual problem.
There is another angle I found on the web about barriers to employee engagement and the writer is saying that two main obstacles that could be standing in the way of employee engagement are poor information transmission and bad interface (assuming you’re using some platform for employee engagement).
Source: http://blog.rewardgateway.com/7-usability-barriers-obstructing-employee-engagement-avoid/

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