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How engaged are your employees?
Are your employees really determined to maximise results? Are they committed to the company? Or to the job?
Alarming findings in research commissioned by Accor Services suggests that these are issues that sales
directors and managers should be reviewing with great urgency.
According to the research, employee engagement levels in South Africa are worryingly low and the proportion
of staff feeling engaged has dropped by half since 2005.
In order to maximise the potential of employees, managers need to ensure that all employees are fully
engaged, committed and motivated 100% of the time. If not, the consequences of inadequate employee engagement
and motivation are wide-ranging and substantial.
Organisations with employees who are not fully engaged are not only failing to maximise their daily
performance, they are also likely to suffer from poor morale, disruption and an extra layout of funds by the
organisation as a result of absenteeism and staff turnover. As a result, there is strong evidence that this
should be a cause for considerable concern among South African managers.
Offering advice on rewards and benefits enables employers to identify how vital it is for them to understand
the needs of their employees and the importance of communicating the reward, once it has been implemented.
An outline on the steps organisations can and should take to drive engagement among employees has been
simplified into ten easy pointers which can be used as a checklist.
These include:
Gather hard data on levels of employee engagement.
Be prepared to take positive action.
Recognise the opportunity for sales directors to address this issue.
Get managers on board.
Communicate effectively.
Fix benefits as part of your wider engagement strategy.
Take a flexibility approach to benefits.
Express the total value of benefits.
Keep your advocates engaged.
Review, revise and plan ahead.
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