Employee engagement is a key factor for organizational success, as it reflects the degree to which employees are committed, motivated and involved in their work. However, measuring employee engagement is not an easy task, as different definitions and instruments exist in the literature. One of the most widely used and validated tools for assessing employee engagement is the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES), developed by Schaufeli and colleagues (2002). In this article, I will describe why the UWES is a great tool for employers to use to measure employee engagement,
Category: Business Culture
Sam Altman Firing: How It Will Affect Company Culture at OpenAI
Any firing has the ability to send shockwaves of insecurity through your culture. Especially when the founder and CEO is fired for no significant reason. It can result in the value of each employee being reduced to a number and an outcome, and each employee can be waiting for their number to come up. A culture of threat will have a massive impact on the future creativity of the organization as the brain shifts into threat avoidance mode.
A Culture’s Journey to Valuing People
Each of us asks the question, “Am I loved?” And when we come together into cultures, we seek to answer this question in the faces, actions and words of others. We collectively in cultures seek to answer this question.
Is your culture stuck and won’t accept positive change?
Ever feel frustrated with your staff? Why can’t we get this right?! Why can’t we grow and change? ! It’s easy for us to blame issues on the characters of others.
The Ideal Culture Blueprint Exists, and 3 Ideals to Build on
Is there a perfect or ideal culture? Is there a culture that is better than others? Specifically, in the business realm is there one target blueprint culture we should all aim towards?
How to Create Psychologically Safe Teams
Google wanted to find out what made some teams more successful than others. They commissioned a study to discover what the essential factor was, and it wasn’t what you might expect.
Three Things Every Leader Must Do To Lead
The three keys to leadership are likely things you’ve not heard before. Watch this video to find out, or read the transcript included.
How Business Culture Affects the Bottom Line
How can you run a business with the primary goal of great relationships rather than the bottom line? Watch this video or read the transcript included.
Why Do Most Business Culture Change Efforts Fail?
In business culture, at least 70 percent of management change efforts fail. Here are four keys to help your change efforts not fail.
Oxytocin, We are Wired to Connect in Business
Oxytocin increases trust and engagement between people. Business can be a stimulus of oxytocin. The key is that it must be done in a way that stirs positive regard for one another.