Originally published in IPA on July 8, 2013 Some have predicted that the age of social media will lead to the death of the employee engagement survey. In this article, Hugh Tonks of Thymometrics argues that far from disappearing, new technology will lead to a rebirth of the engagement surveyMore …
Month: July 2013
Employee RE-Engagement … A Different Kettle Of Fish?
This article was written by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics and originally published in HRZone on May 30, 2013. External and internal barriers to engagement To paraphrase the opening to Tolstoy’s magnificent Anna Karenina, “All engaged employees are alike; each disengaged employee is disengaged in their own way.” To understand this is to recogniseMore …
Do Employee Opinion Surveys Drive Employee Engagement?
Originally posted by Noel O’Reilly in XpertHR on Thursday, 23rd May 2013 In April 2013 I wrote a post, “Employee engagement surveys are dead, long live social media?” on this blog about a survey by Silverman Research for the CIPD which suggested that social media could fulfill some of theMore …
Why Social Media Cannot Replace The Annual Employee Survey
Originally posted by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics in Personnel Today on May 22, 2013. Hugh Tonks, CEO of Thymometrics, looks at why employee opinion surveys still matter in the age of social media. A report released in March 2013, Social media and employee voice: the current landscape, summarises the characteristics of social mediaMore …
Can You Really Measure Engagement?
Originally posted by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics in HRZone on May 16, 2013. If we are going to try to measure something, we need to know what it is we’re measuring. So an essential precursor to any attempt to measure engagement is to pin down a definition of what engagement actually is.More …