Are your employees engaged?

Are there tenured employees in your business who are no longer effective in their roles? They might even have become toxic in their negative attitude, but you are reluctant to let them go because of their long history with the company.

Or perhaps you have you made a personal investment of your time and/or resources in people in your firm, only to be shocked that they resigned their position? You noticed a change in their level of enthusiasm or they recently appeared less responsive than usual, but you underestimated the importance of these behavioral cues. In both of these examples management misreading the signs of an employee's level of engagement can have far reaching negative implications for the overall success of your organization.

Employee engagement has been defined as “the extent to which employees commit to something or someone in their organization, how hard they work and how long they stay as a result of that commitment.” There are three types of employees that have been identified in the management research on this topic: engaged employees, not-engaged employees and disengaged employees.