Employee Engagement: Is Your Workforce Fully Engaged?

Our culture values work as a means to find fulfillment in life. Some cultures work to live, but we seem to love to work.

Ask almost anyone who they are and they will tell you what they do for a living. You get a temporary pass by telling everyone that you are a student!

So don't you think it is really curious why so many people are not happy at work?

The statistics on workforce engagement are shocking.

According to research, only 29 percent of employees are motivated and energized. What, then, is happening to the other two-thirds of the people working in organizations?

This is an even worse scenario than the old joke in which a manager is asked how many people work in his company and he responds, “About half of them.”

What is causing all these people to lose their enthusiasm and commitment? Almost everyone joins an organization with engagement.  What is it that extinguishes that initial engagement after the first few years of working in an organization? Here are some possible causes:

1. Little or no feedback or guidance from those in charge
2. Lack of opportunity to discuss problems
3. Lack of opportunity to provide ideas and input
4. Lack of resources to solve problems or to do a job well
5. Little or no reward or recognition
6. Little opportunity to develop one’s potential
7. Pressure to perform and achieve more with less
8. Lack of opportunity to interact socially
I9. nterpersonal conflicts left unresolved
10. Little joy or humor except for office gossip and cynicism
11. Stress in balancing work and home responsibilities, leading to energy depletion

Are you and the people at your organization happy at work? If so, why? If not, why not?