Engaged: Unleashing Your Organization's Potential Through Employee Engagement

by Linda Holbeche, Geoffrey Matthews

A non-biased, grounded, and practical approach to employee engagement For managers and business leaders who want to enhance performance, this easy-to-use guide to employee management offers real solutions for getting workers engaged and increasing productivity. It explains what employee engagement is, why it matters, what the benefits of it are, what helps and hinders it, how to measure it, how to put theory into action when trying to create it. As an added benefit, it offers plenty of advice on how managers can keep themselves engaged, even during the toughest of times.

346 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2012

Reviews

[Harun Musho'd · Rating 4 out of 5]

A useful, if imperfect, book on management. On the minus side, the advice becomes a little repetitive on a single read through and it seems a little padded (although in fairness the advice is probably more useful when used as a reference book and not read from cover to cover). Some of the case study examples are a bit trite and self promotional (particularly those from ING banker Krista Baeten), as if David Brent had never existed. On the plus side, the advice is based on solid academic research, some from Holbeche herself (and case studies are properly used to illustrate rather than prove a point), the book is generally well written, and the first half and last chapter in particular being very useful to a range if managers from too leaders to middle managers and HR. The references to the public sector and the recent recession are particularly helpful.

[kerri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect primer

I found this book a really enriching read. An excellent comprehensive primer on the topic of employee engagement. Highly recommended read.