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Why Your CEO Doesn’t Care About Employee Engagement (Yet)

Achievers

It’s time to change the way we think about this HR metric, because it needs to become a leading business metric. According to Towers Perrin research, companies with engaged workers have 6 percent higher net profit margins, and Kenexa research points out that engaged companies have five times higher shareholder returns over five years.

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Speaking

Strategic HCM

and other tools and approaches can be used to develop it , webinar, May 2011 HR Metrics for Business Improvement and Strategy Alignment , UMI Events, March 2011 HR and Human Capital Risk Management , CP&P, Houston, US, March 2011 A Review of HR 2.0 and social networking tools Any of the topics dealt with in my blog, [link].

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#Employee Feedback Is The Killer App #HR

TalentHQ

New research by MRInetwork shows that 90% of recruiters surveyed believe that “candidates are now in charge” – the highest this metric has been in five years. As I discuss in It’s Time to Rethink the Employee Engagement Issue , annual engagement metrics are not actionable enough for most managers. Slack is now offering this as well.