Organisations with a "freedom-centred" culture where every employee has a voice can expect far greater productivity and engagement than those that use fear, control, or even outstanding benefits as motivation, according to RedBalloon's Megan Bromley.
Client complaints have all but dried up for an employer that reinvented itself as a values-led organisation and began hiring accordingly, its executive director says.
Many managers try to create buy-in by using techniques that actually create resistance, according to business consultant and psychiatrist Mark Goulston, who says the key to getting through to people lies not in what you tell them, but in what you can get them to tell you.
The 'holy grail' of motivating employees to give their discretionary effort can only be achieved with a focus on frontline management, and relating company goals to individual values, according to engagement experts.
The term "gamification" can be misleading and off-putting, but what it's really about - using engagement principles to make people do things they wouldn't otherwise do - should already be second-nature to HR, according to a development specialist.
An employer that plans to remove all its "people manager" roles is offering unhappy staff a generous severance payment, but an employment lawyer says this type of approach to large-scale change carries some risks.
Smart companies are adding "stay interviews" to their engagement efforts to ward off unwanted or surprise resignations, says retention expert Richard Finnegan.
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