Employee Engagement: A Human Resource Management Perspective

✍ Scribed by Cam Caldwell; Verl Allen Anderson

• Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Leaders continue to struggle to earn the followership of others - a challenge they have faced for millennia. According to extensive research, the key to effective leadership lies in demonstrating the ability to achieve a worthy purpose while simultaneously helping employees to improve themselves. Lacking the capacity to demonstrate those two abilities, leaders consistently fail to engage, empower, and enable employees to contribute to their companies' success. This book addresses the importance of employee engagement - the degree to which employees feel connected to their organizations, dedicated to its purposes, and able to utilize their talents to help organizations succeed. The alarming findings of leadership research confirm that more employees currently feel negatively engaged than fully positively engaged in their relationships with leaders, managers, and supervisors. In addition to identifying the nature of engagement, we have explained why those who lead organizations are so often ineffective - and we offer suggestions throughout this book to help leaders, managers, supervisors, and those who work in Human Resource Management to create organizational relationships that build employee trust, commitment, and ownership. Readers of this book will find well-documented information incorporating the findings of management experts, practitioners, and consultants - but also new ideas that we have refined from our past research about human relationships and leadership effectiveness. Trust has often been called the most important ingredient in successful relationships. Ethics and leadership have been described as two sides of the same coin. Employee commitment is acknowledged to be the key to competitive advantage. Each of these factors is closely related to employee engagement and each enables leaders to develop relationships that build more effective organizations. Although there are no instant answers or magic wand solutions to restoring the lack of trust that enormous numbers of individuals have in organizations, leaders, and managers, we confidently proclaim to those who read this book that the information, recommendations, and observations contained herein are worthy of your close attention - and your application"--

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Employee Engagement – Why It Matters
Understanding Employee Engagement
Why Engagement Matters
Summary of Remaining Chapters
Chapter 2 – Employee Engagement and the Leader
Chapter 3 – Breaking All the Rules – Employee Engagement for the 21st Century
Chapter 4 – Employee Engagement is a Choice—Keys to Creating Trust and Commitment
Chapter 5 – Engagement and Generation Z—Culture Requirements for the Future
Chapter 6 – Enggement, Empowerment, and Employee Trust
Chapter 7 – Employee Engagement—A Transformative Approach
Chapter 8 – Human Resource Management and Employee Engagement
Conclusion
Chapter 2
Employee Engagement and Leaders’ Duties
Stakeholders and Employee Engagement
Top Management Team
Society-at-Large
Individual Supervisors
Individual Employees
The Employee Group
The Leaders’ Responsibilities
Contributions of the Chapter
Conclusion
Chapter 3
Breaking All the Rules – Employee Engagement for the 21st Century
Current Trends
Breaking All the Rules as a Strategy
The Challenge
Chapter 4
Employee Engagement Is a Choice – Keys to Creating Trust and Commitment
Insights about Engagement
Creating a Culture of Engagement
The Challenge
Chapter 5
Engagement and Generation Z – Culture Requirements for the Future
Understanding Generation Z
The Role of Culture and Engagement
Cultural Practices for Gen Zers
Contributions of the Chapter
Conclusion
Chapter 6
Engagement, Empowerment, and Employee Trust
The Nature of Engagement
Zone of Reluctance
Zone of Indifference
Zone of Acceptance
Zone of Trust
Zone of Commitment
Zone of Stewardship
Engagement and Empowerment
Why High Trust Matters
Conclusion
Chapter 7
Employee Engagement – A Transformative Approach
Why Employees Are Disengaged
Transformative Leadership as a New Approach
Transformational Leadership
Servant Leadership
Level 5 Leadership
Principle-Centered Leadership
Covenantal Leadership
Charismatic Leadership
A Challenge to Readers
Chapter 8
Human Resource Management and Employee Engagement
Why Today’s Organizations Struggle
Addressing These Deficiencies
The Challenge
References
About the Authors
Index
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