When it comes to Employee Engagement, do you know what your challenges are and what to do to adopt and implement the right engagement practices? A new playbook by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) and ASTD provides actionable strategies for employee engagement that were established through a comprehensive global survey of industry respondents. The Building an Engaged Workforce Playbook highlights the problems that organizations face in regard to engagement and the potential solutions for addressing those problems.

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In 2008, ASTD partnered with Dale Carnegie Training and the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) to evaluate employee engagement.  The study found that engaged workers were willing to contribute more to work efforts, typically beyond their ordinary job parameters. In this respect, it seems that respondents to the survey are associating engagement with a willingness to “go the extra mile” in the workplace. This is an interesting finding because it places the idea of effort or work ethic at the pinnacle of what it means to be engaged. The next most highly rated indicators of engagement are linked to the organizational image that workers present to the outside world. More...

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In 2008, ASTD partnered with Dale Carnegie Training and the Institute for Corporate Productivity to survey 776 respondents and extensively review the business literature on learning's role in employee engagement.

According to the study report, worker engagement is among the most important employee issues of the day. The current survey asked respondents to rate the extent to which engagement is important in their organizations. More...

Tags: employee engagement, learning's role in employee engagement

Categories: Research