Many managers mistakenly think that employee satisfaction can increase employee motivation. American psychologist Frederick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene … Read more
The rise of the employee experience is the next topic human resources professionals should pay attention to and here’s why. Try this experiment. Go to … Read more
Measuring employee engagement is tricky. After all, how do you get people to tell you how engaged they are in their work when they might not even … Read more
In the past, as we conducted workshops on employee engagement, we found that we needed to show the organization the benefits of an engaged workforce. … Read more
Organizations struggle to quantify the impact engaged employees have on business results. Intuitively, it’s a no-brainer — engaged employees cost … Read more
In his book, The Human Side of Enterprise published in 1960, MIT business professor Douglas McGregor proposed two schools of thought on employee … Read more
An organization’s culture consists of the values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that employees share and use on a daily basis in their work. The … Read more
It’s that time of year again, when HR pleads, prods, and threatens managers to get their performance appraisals done. It’s also the time when many managers … Read more
Shawn Achor’s book The Happiness Advantage takes an in-depth look at the way happiness impacts people in the workplace. Much of his research and … Read more
I (regrettably) saw a clip the other night of the new FOX reality TV show called Does Somebody Have to Go? It’s essentially an office-based reality show … Read more