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April 18, 2022
Employee Engagement & Motivation Policy: Why You
Need One For Retention – Yesterday
process.st/employee-engagement-and-motivation
Leks Drakos
April 18, 2022
Human Resources
Without a well-structured policy, lack of engagement and motivation can slowly eat away
and undermine your company and your workforce unnoticed until it’s too late.
So, let’s talk about why engagement and motivation are so important and how to
implement good policies without utterly alienating your workforce. Here at Process
Street, that’s just the sort of thing we do best.
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Let’s dive in!
Are employee engagement & motivation the same thing?
No, they are not.
According to Professor William A. Kahn, Ph.D. (Boston University), employee
engagement is:
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In other words, engagement is about how closely the company’s and the employee’s
objectives are aligned. Engagement can be affected by a number of things:
Involvement in particular social issues;
Work environment and conditions;
Attitude of management and leadership towards employees as individuals or as a
whole;
Positive culture with a general feeling of care towards their wellbeing.
That list is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a rough idea of what drives engagement.
Employee engagement, essentially, is exactly what it sounds like: How interested are your
employees in your company’s success?
Income and job security are obvious motivators, but don’t make it into most employees’
top 5:
1. Transparent communication
2. Challenges at work
3. Recognition for accomplishments
4. Cohesive teams
5. Autonomy
The following three models work because they aren’t static models. Each one of them
includes plenty of room for flexibility, improvisation, and innovation. If you thought you
were going to get off the hook with a one-size-fits-all engagement model, you are sorely
mistaken. You need to know what drives your employees, or these models are worthless.
Deloitte’s 5 Elements That Drive Engagement
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If you take a look at the diagram above, you’ll see a lot of these maj