What Employees Really Want From Their Managers . Employees don’t quit organizations, they quit managers. . Re peated studies show that poor management performance is a major reason people leave their jobs. . In fact, employees who rate their line manager’s performance as poor are four times more likely to be job hunting – and 40% are likely to have interviewed for a new job in the last month. . MORE

Tasked with overseeing the entire employee lifecycle, HR professionals are often asked to drive serious business results with limited resources. Employee Engagement Tools. If there’s one metric that can determine a business’s productivity, profitability, and turnover rate, it’s employee engagement. Luckily, when it comes to engagement, sometimes simpler is better. Performance Management Tools. MORE

Engagement surveys are a mainstay in the arsenal of HR tactics. And for a long time engagement scores have been the go-to metric that HR teams use when they need to demonstrate their impact on business results. The theory is that employees who are more engaged will also be more productive. There is still a huge gap between engagement data (even if it’s been effectively collected) and data about actual workforce outcomes, such as retention of key talent. MORE

This would be a relatively simple exercise if every employee was aligned and understood the strategic goals of the organisation and also, clearly understood what exactly they need to do to meet their individual goals. One of the crucial steps in the performance management process is setting and communicating the goals of employees. This process entails setting specific and clear expectations from a performance standpoint for every employee. Performance MORE

For many executives, it is tempting to view employee recognition software as a cost without seeing the full benefit of the investment. Appreciation and employee engagement are mistakenly seen as soft benefits – making it all too easy to avoid investing in an employee experience enhancement program that, at first glance, looks more like a bonus than mission-critical functionality. Employee Recognition Software Improves Productivity. Often it’s because of culture. MORE

Kazoo’s award-winning employee engagement app brings your employee experience to wherever your employees may be. It takes the power of our Employee Engagement platform from the desktop onto the smartphone, so employees can access your company’s employee engagement software from home, on the road, at their desks – or even at night before they go to bed. Better Performance on Company Goals. Lower Turnover. MORE

Recently, Kazoo’s Director of Employee Experience sat down to discuss employee retention strategies in 5 Tried-and-True Ways to Boost Retention , a webinar based on the latest industry research and Kazoo’s first-hand experience with helping hundreds of organizations. Below, we touch on the employee retention secrets mentioned in the webinar. Question you should be asking yourself : “Is employee appreciation a habit here?” MORE