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A recent article in the Gallup Management Journal examines employee engagement and the critical role it plays it plays in the workplace. As James K. Harter, Gallup's chief scientist of workplace management and well-being said in the article, "In good times, employee engagement is the difference between being good and being great. In bad times, it's the difference between surviving and not."
Low engagement leads to low morale and ineffective performance, and in today's tough economic times, performance is key when employees are being asked to do more with less. Have you taken the temperature of your workplace lately? Do you know the percentage of employees who are disengaged or sitting on the edge?
Although unemployment is at an all-time high, you should not assume that employees "should be just happy to have a job." They need a purpose, a reason to work and they need to feel like the work that they are doing is meaningful and valuable to the company.