It’s a great business move to invest in the satisfaction of your employees. Improving employee engagement is a top priority for increasing productivity, happiness and retention rates. No doubt, your leadership team went into this effort with high hopes. It’s important that you have a realistic view of your organizationalMore …
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Corporate Culture, employee engagement, Employee Engagement Surveys, Employee Feedback, Productivity, Talent Retention, Turnover
Can Your Organization Avoid the High Cost of Unexpected Turnover?
Nearly every day, employers are left scratching their heads when an otherwise loyal employee walks off the job. Employees may leave for a number of personal and professional reasons, including lack of upward mobility, poor management, or just simply becoming bored with the work over time. There can be otherMore …
Be an HR Hero with (Free) Always-On Employee Engagement Software
Every business, whether made up of a small local team or a multi-national group, must be willing to embrace change. This is part of the success of the best organizations. Every company starts somewhere and it’s change that is the catalyst for growth and innovation. Traditionally, the area of humanMore …
employee engagement, Employee Engagement Surveys, Employee Perspective Engagement, Engagement Surveys, Feedback, Managing Employee Engagement, measuring engagement
Trying to Measure Employee Engagement? Don’t Bother!
Go and look at the survey tools offered by the employee engagement industry, and everywhere you’ll see slogans about measuring engagement, and promises of wonderful things happening through “proven” measurement techniques. But hidden behind these extravagant and often outlandish claims are things these companies don’t bother to tell you, andMore …
Employee Engagement; The Bottom Line Is It’s Critical To Your Bottom Line… But How Do You Do It?
Guest blog by Kath Howell of The Terrier Group. Have you ever been so absorbed in your work that time ceased to exist – what felt like mid morning is mid afternoon, and you have experienced levels of productivity and creativity that have yielded real fruit? Many of usMore …
employee engagement, Employee Engagement Surveys, Employee Feedback, Gallup Poll, Gen Z, Millennials
Less than 10% of UK Employees are Engaged in their Jobs
The lack of employee engagement is at all time lows, according to most recent workforce surveys. In September, a Gallup Poll indicated that as of the end of 2016 only around 8% of British laborers are actively engaged in their jobs, which is down from 17% in 2012. Other nations like Sweden,More …
Calculating the ROI of Real-Time Employee Engagement
In a highly competitive economic climate that spans the globe, more organizations are forced to correlate their efforts to improve corporate cultures more closely with human capital analytics. One of the questions that the Thymometrics’ team gets asked often is, “How do we calculate employee engagement?” Human resources has becomeMore …
Are Employee Engagement Surveys for the High Jump?
By Hugh Tonks, CEO at Thymometrics. As we’re in the middle of the Rio Olympics, it would seem fitting to ask if there’s anything we can learn from this sporting bonanza, aside from the obvious lessons about teamwork, never giving up, and so forth. Well, maybe there is – and it comesMore …
Why Employee Satisfaction on its Own is Not Enough
As you look around your workplace, you’re probably seeing many happy smiling faces, right? This can and should be an indicator of employee engagement and happiness, or at least on the surface it can appear so. But, maybe there’s a lot more at stake here. What makes one employee reportMore …
Corporate Culture, employee engagement, Employee Engagement Surveys, Employee Motivation, Team Performance
Improve Employee Motivation with Thymometrics
Psychology of Employee Motivation Employee motivation as a topic has been extensively researched for decades by many leading experts around the globe. It is therefore surprising that only recently have we begun to understand more about the core drivers of an engaged employee and in turn employee performance. Much traditionalMore …