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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cross, Rob
• Gray, Peter
• Gerbasi, Alexandra
• Assimakopoulos, Dimitris

Titel

Building engagement from the ground up: How top organizations leverage networks to drive employee engagement

Ist Teil von

• Organizational dynamics, 2012-07, Vol.41 (3), p.202-211

Ort / Verlag

New York: Elsevier Science Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Employee engagement is at an all-time low, which has a detrimental effect on performance in many organizations. Unfortunately, corporate initiatives to inspire engagement often have minimal impact, in part because they typically target a small population of employees -- either select leaders or high-potential employees. In this article we show how an understanding of informal networks has helped a range of top companies and government agencies increase employee engagement. The network approach provides two important and novel means of nurturing engagement: (1) building energizing relationships in networks and (2) diffusing positive culture change through informal opinion leaders. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]