Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement - Hardcover

Holbeche, Linda; Matthews, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119953537 ISBN 13: 9781119953531

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2012

Synopsis

A non-biased, grounded, and practical approach to employee engagement

For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement is, why it matters, what the benefits of it are, what helps and hinders it, how to measure it, how to put theory into action when trying to create it. As an added benefit, it offers plenty of advice on how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.

About this title

About the Author

Linda Holbeche PhD is a leading teacher and writer on HR topics. She was ranked number three in Human Resources magazine’s most influential 2009 roll call of top industry thinkers. Until recently, she was the Director of Research and Policy at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

She is also a Visiting Professor of Leadership Innovation at the University of Bedfordshire, a Visiting Professor in HRM and Organisation Development at Cass Business School (London), an Adjunct Professor (Executive Education) at Imperial College, London and a Visiting Fellow of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. In addition to this she is an Associate of Erasmus Business School (Rotterdam), Edinburgh Napier University and Ashridge Management College. Linda is a Chartered Fellow of CIPD and a Fellow of both the RSA and the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

Geoffrey Matthews is an experienced HR executive with an extensive background in employee engagement, organizational development, rewards, and international HR. He is currently Vice President HR Strategy for Merck KGaA, a leading DAX 30 European chemical and pharmaceutical company. Prior to this, Geoff held senior HR positions in a number of major companies including Roche and Hewlett-Packard. He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Management Institute as well as being a member of the CIPD, SHRM and World at Work.

From the Back Cover

“The current economic crisis has underlined how traditional means of managing people are no longer effective. Too many businesses underperform because they can no longer count on the commitment of their workforce. Only by treating employees as key stakeholders and engaging them will organizations be successful. This timely book provides a practical roadmap for companies to create an engaged workforce and is essential reading for all business leaders.”--Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

“This is an important contribution to leaders and managers across all types of organizations. I believe readers of this book will be more confident and better equipped to address the issues their organizations are facing.”--David MacLeod, Chairman of the UK Government-sponsored Employee Engagement Task Force and co-author of the influential report to the UK Government ‘Engaging for Success’

“This book highlights in a very understandable and comprehensive way, one of the most important HR concepts of our age, ‘engagement’. During difficult times, we need more than ever to engage our workforce, to get them involved and committed. This book shows how to do it, and is a ‘must read’ for all line managers and HR professionals.”--Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, UK

“A must read, timely and practical primer on how to engage any workforce – warts and all.”--Will Hutton, author of Them and Us: Changing Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society, Principal at Hertford College, Oxford, UK, Weekly Columnist at The Guardian and The Observer Newspapers

From the Inside Flap

In an increasingly competitive world a business’s people are crucial for organisational success. Yet repeated research shows many workplaces suffer from a serious engagement deficit. In these turbulent times, businesses can no longer afford this. Those that succeed in engaging their employees not only have better, more positive workplaces, but often derive a noticeable improvement in their results as well. Already identified by the UK Government as a major business priority, employee engagement is a topic no one can afford to ignore.

For all managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance – and professionals in Communications or HR asked to help – this easy-to-use guide offers real solutions for getting your organization engaged.

It explains:

• what employee engagement is

• why it matters

• what the benefits of it are

• what helps and hinders it

• how to measure it

• how to put theory into action

• how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119953537
• ISBN 13: 9781119953531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346