The HR along with the management can convert actively disengaged & not engaged employees into engaged employees. I have analysed some of the crucial factors which act as barriers to employee engagement in an organization
From India, Bangalore
17From India, Bangalore
Well done Nazneen. You are quite right. Employees when they first join a company are fully engaged. But then they meet up with the barriers and quickly become disengaged. So remove the barriers and magically they become engaged.
But the biggest barrier is 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. That change caused huge increases in employee performance and allowed me to learn that top-down had actually created most of the problems I was trying to fix.
In my last turnaround as executive of a 1300 person unionized group, productivity increased by over 300%, morale and innovation went sky high, most employees literally loved to come to work, and we were able to crush our competition.
You are quite right Nazeen.
Best regards, Ben Simonton
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
From United States, Tampa
But the biggest barrier is 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. That change caused huge increases in employee performance and allowed me to learn that top-down had actually created most of the problems I was trying to fix.
In my last turnaround as executive of a 1300 person unionized group, productivity increased by over 300%, morale and innovation went sky high, most employees literally loved to come to work, and we were able to crush our competition.
You are quite right Nazeen.
Best regards, Ben Simonton
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
From United States, Tampa
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
From India, Mumbai
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
From India, Mumbai
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/
From Macedonia, Skopje
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/
From Macedonia, Skopje
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