A culture of employee engagement: a strategic perspective for global managers

摘要

Employee engagement needs to be a part of the organizational culture, as it will help organizations achieve business success through transformation. Organizational leaders should establish a foundation of employee engagement and drive engagement vertically and horizontally throughout their respective organizations. They need to build commitment between organizational goals and drivers of employee engagement to manage processes and teams. Efforts should be made to equip employees at all levels within an organization and at the global level. In addition, a requirement is an organizational culture which can align and integrate drivers of engagement with the strategic priorities of the organization. Organizational leaders need to make sure that they are creating a culture of engagement at the global level. Organizational leaders need to measure the appropriate factors to determine the extent to which they have achieved a culture of engagement in their respective organizations. Also, they must determine the correlation between engagement efforts and performance management system. Necessary steps should be taken to communicate the results to employees and provide a valuable feedback loop to create a culture of engagement that will translate to actions that will manage engagement at local and global levels. This is how organizational leaders can utilize employee engagement as a business strategy to establish a connection between employee performance and organizational performance.