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We're always talking about management and HR's role in engaging employees but are they themselves engaged?

 And if not, who's responsible for ensuring their engagement?

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Question added by Ghada Sameer , Project Manager and media executive , CQA
Date Posted: 2015/06/04
Amir Ageeb
by Amir Ageeb , Content Senior Specialist , Elm Company

The statistics provided by Mr  Vinod Jetley could give a clear indication regarding the issue in question.

Thanks for the invite,

 

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

let me share some statistics from the research:

  • 86% of business and HR leaders believe they do not have an adequate leadership pipeline (38% see it as an urgent problem)
  • 79% believe they have a significant retention and engagement problem (26% see it as urgent)
  • 77% do not feel they have the right HR skills to address the issue (25% urgent)
  • 75% are struggling to attract and recruiting the top people they need (24% urgent)
  • Only17% feel they have a compelling and engaging employment brand.

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

IT depend on the people who work at the same company and also mostly it depend on the company it self ,,, what type of relation procedure they use to communicate with each other ......thanks

khaled elkholy
by khaled elkholy , HR MANAGER , misk for import & export

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been talking about how employees can make themselves more enageable, what line managers can do to engage their teams and what CEO’s should to to engage the company and drive performance. Today, the last of the series, is dedicated to5 roles you should expect the HR department to fulfill in driving employee engagement.

1. The Engagement Advocate

If someone is going to drive employee engagement it’s the HR department. They should be able to clearly articulate the benefits of employee engagement in a way that:

  1. The executive leadership team takes notices and wants to invest in improving employee engagement.
  2. Line managers understand that engaging employees will enhance their own performance.
  3. Employees know what’s expected of them and what they can expect from the company (employee value proposition)

2. The Engagement Expert

First and foremost HR should be the subject matter expert on employee engagement and be able to answer:

  • Why it’s important,
  • What drives employee engagement,
  • How it can be measured,
  • What can you do to improve employee engagement,

Your HR team should able to explain that employee commitment (measured by employees say, strive and stay is driven by belonging, alignment and growth.

Employee Engagement

However in an interesting article title: ‘Sack the HR department!’: Why HR can be the source of disengagement, and how to avoid – or fix, the Great Place to Work Institutes identifies that the HR department in many cases doesn’t have the internal credibility to act as the engagement expert. Either because:

  1. They are seen as detached from the operations and dont know what’s happening ’on the floor’ or
  2. HR themselves are not very engaged or
  3. By having aligned themselves closer to management (as a result of implementing the HR business partner model) HR is seen as less aligned with staff

3. The Engagement ConsultantNot surprisingly research has confirmed that the line manager plays the most important role in engaging employees. As line managers are a diverse bunch they’re also the most difficult group to influence. HR has a role to train, guide and coach line managers in how to engage employees.And although metrics are an important tool (see the Engagement Gate Keeper) HR should help line managers point out that engagement is all about dialogue and not the score per se. As Jon Kaufman and Rob Makey pointed out that it’s important to:

…signal that discussing and addressing the root causes, and seeing steady progress, matters more than any absolute score itself. Pushing the metrics to the side also sends a signal of empowerment to the supervisors.

4. The Engagement JesterA jester is “a professional fool or clown, especially at a medieval court”. And although modern organisations are certainly not equivalent to medieval courts the HR department does fulfil a role in raising and maintaining the enthusiasm for engagement activities across the organisation.This includes initiating, fostering and organising all kind of traditional employee engagement activities, from the annual employee BBQ to the photo calender competitions, from creating a stimulating workspace to the yearly football/cricket/basketball/skiing competitions, from organising donation runs to employee hotlines. HR is the team to initiate and coordinate all these activities to help engage employees.5. The Engagement Gate KeeperThe HR department plays the role of gate keeper for employee engagement [Tweet This]. It ensures that engagement is measured through (bi-)annual surveys, pulse checks and other measurement mechanisms. Action plans are being developed and implemented by line managers and that the leadership team tables the engagement discussion regularly on their top team agenda.The flip-side of all the focus on measurement, benchmarks, ranking and data is of course that we get submerged in the analytics and tend to loosing the big picture, which is that engagement is all about the dialogue and not the metrics. We all know the little tricks to positively influence engagement levels a couple of weeks prior to the survey and of course this takes away the whole purpose of the exercise.HR should ensure that data and measurement plays its supportive role but does not overshadow what it’s all about. Engaging employees in a way that they have a sense of belonging, feel that they can make a contribution, are challenged, can grow and feel valued. Have I missed anything? Let me know in the comments below, I would love to hear your view. And If you haven’t already

Irina Chepel
by Irina Chepel , Personal trainer , Freelancer

Depends of the level of the cooperation, personal relations between departments etc...

As Saleh
by As Saleh , Recruitment Manager , Saudi House Recruitment

Human resource management is concerned with all the belongings of staff and guardians that it was physically or material is key management role is to provide the work environment to suit the work itself and must be involved in all decision-making to hurt the interests of everyone and the organization together.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

A very important question

He is in charge of direct manager

And the Human Resources Department

 

And reports prepared for each employee

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