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Organisations regularly tell me that they spend vast tracts of time studying employee remuneration, yet I never hear of anyone acting on this knowledge.
(In our years of studying employee "voice" and advising organizations, we've never heard anyone say, "I have a closed-door policy"). Think about it: How often do employees come to you, on your turf, to tell you the unvarnished truth simply because you've encouraged them to do so?
As George LaRocque wrote in his recent #HRWINS executive brief, "Where Purpose Meets Performance: Can HR Tech Solve Culture?", the experts studying employee engagement have examined everything from happiness to community embeddedness, social network analysis, motivation and incentives, collaboration, personality and culture assessments, and more.
Like other research studying employee referrals, Payscale found that employees hired through a referral tended to be more engaged than the typical employee and are more likely to be satisfied with their employer and less likely to leave the company within six months.
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She said that in her own company's case, studying employees' overall health records had alerted Cisco to costly conditions like depression and muscular and skeletal problems affecting some workers' productivity.
2 Studying employees, the authors found that an 'optimal lifestyle' decreased the 2-year risk of chronic LBP by 66% compared to employees with an unhealthy lifestyle.
Barsade and many others who study employee productivity say the results of focusing on employee wellbeing can be easily and consistently quantified in terms of decreased turnover (pdf), burnout and absenteeism.
The Gallup organization has studied employee engagement for many years.
As the folks at Gallup, who study employee engagement, remind us, "Employees don't check their personalities at the door when they come to work.
We combined Conservation of Resources theory with insights from the organizational change literature to study employees in a Dutch police district undergoing reorganization.
The project's independent researchers were also paid to study employees at a similar care home who continued to work regular days.
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