Articles


Thursday, December 04 2008

Submitted by spherica on Tue, 2006-05-30 09:37. Employee Engagement

SOURCE: From Soundview “Executive Book Summaries,” June 2005

The Summary in Brief:
In The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, employee-retention expert Leigh Branham knocks down the wall that separates employee from employer — and even management from senior leadership — in an effort to forge an open discussion on employee disengagement and what organizations need to recognize and actively pursue in order to retain their best and brightest people. Using a voluminous amount of interview and survey data, Branham isolates each reason, tells companies what to look for, and translates the needs and desires of employers and employees into a common language, enabling companies and their most valued human resources to better understand one another.

 

Read more »


Friday, November 21 2008

Submitted by mkoscec on Fri, 2007-09-14 15:45. Employee Wellness | Administration | Employee Engagement

The need to understand organization health flows from a dramatic turn of events, where research has shown that the performance of employees is directly tied to the mental health of employees. Comprehensive analysis of mental health and productivity issues were drawn out by Dr. Edgardo Pérez, CEO, the Homewood Health Centre and Bill Wilkerson, Co-director of the Homewood Health Centre, in their book, Mindsets .

A significant shift has been taking place in the workplace, where the amount of employees in the service and high technology sectors has been outgrowing employment in traditional manufacturing jobs. According to Thomas Stewart, a member of the Board of Fortune Magazine, in 1991, capital spending in America, in machinery and equipment and other technologies for manufacturing was $107 billion and for information technology, it was $112 billion. This marked the first time in history when information technology spending outstripped spending on production technology. This highlighted the change in the nature of jobs which is being accompanied by a shift in the causes of employee absenteeism and employee health. Dr. Neva Hilliard, a former director of the British Columbia Workers' Compensation Board, noted that today most injured workers are absent from work longer and the cost of caring for them has risen dramatically. Reported WCB claims in British Columbia were down 35% over a five year period, while cost of claims soared 264%. She cited workplace stress as a rising contributor to disability as we enter the era of the white-collar knowledge worker.

Read more »


Tuesday, February 19 2008

Submitted by spherica on Tue, 2006-06-27 22:55. Employee Wellness | Employee Engagement

How Local Leadership Affects the Bottom Line for Organizations

By Dr. Dalton Kehoe, York University

Walking the Talk on “Human Assets” — NOT!

It is widely proclaimed that we are in a knowledge-based economy where highly-skilled individual employees are vital to organizational success. In fact, many organizations find themselves competing for the top talent and seek to be “employers of choice.” As a result, some variation on “people are our most important asset” is commonly pronounced. Despite these statements of good intention, the research tells us many companies still see their “valuable human assets” as either instantly expandable or simply expendable.

Read more »


Home | About us | My Book | Forum | Knowledge Exchange | Articles | Monthly Poll | Privacy | Contact Us
Copyright © 2009 Entec Corporation. All rights reserved. Toll Free: 1-888-858-8174
Design and Development by Intelex