Download or read book Improving Employee Retention in the Public Sector by Increasing Employee Engagement written by Durand Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poor reputation and low salaries has made retaining a talented workforce in the public sector more difficult over the past several decades, resulting in some to declare that the public sector is in the midst of a “human capital crisis.” However, in order to improve public's image of government, it is vital for public agencies to retain talented and experienced employees. It is our position that to improve retention, public agencies must increase levels of employee engagement in their work, which in turn will increase employee commitment and satisfaction. We posit that to create an engaged workforce, public managers must recruit individuals with high levels of public service motivation, link their employees with the meaningfulness of the organization's mission to the community, and utilize social marketing, reputation management, and branding initiatives to foster a better image and reputation for their organization. The present research will test these assumptions in public service organizations.
Download or read book Public Sector Leaders Strategies to Improve Employee Retention written by Michael D. Izard-Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engaging Government Employees written by Robert Lavigna and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over three decades of experience in public sector HR, Bob Lavigna gives managers the tools they need to leverage the talents of government's most important resource: its people. You know firsthand that your government workers are not underworked, overpaid, or mindless clones just carrying out the morally compromised work that politicians forced through the pipeline. Besides having to daily overcome the persona of being a government employee, your hard-working employees face enormous pressures and challenges every day and are asked to solve some of our country’s toughest problems, including unemployment, security, poverty, and education. To be able to return to their desks daily with the passion and commitment required to accomplish these overwhelming duties will require a manager who knows how to leverage talent, improve performance, and inspire passion within these true servants. In Engaging Government Employees, you will learn: Why a highly engaged staff is 20 percent more productive How to get employees to deliver “discretionary effort” How to assess the level of engagement Why free pizza and Coke every Friday is not a viable strategy Engaging Government Employees rejects the typical one-size-fits-all approach to motivation. Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence, this indispensable resource shows how America’s largest employer can apply the science of engagement to get team members passionate about the agency’s mission and committed to its success.
Download or read book State of The Global Workplace written by Gallup and published by Gallup Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. This represents a major barrier to productivity for organizations everywhere – and suggests a staggering waste of human potential. Why is this engagement number so low? There are many reasons — but resistance to rapid change is a big one, Gallup’s research and experience have discovered. In particular, organizations have been slow to adapt to breakneck changes produced by information technology, globalization of markets for products and labor, the rise of the gig economy, and younger workers’ unique demands. Gallup’s 2017 State of the Global Workplace offers analytics and advice for organizational leaders in countries and regions around the globe who are trying to manage amid this rapid change. Grounded in decades of Gallup research and consulting worldwide -- and millions of interviews -- the report advises that leaders improve productivity by becoming far more employee-centered; build strengths-based organizations to unleash workers’ potential; and hire great managers to implement the positive change their organizations need not only to survive – but to thrive.
Download or read book Employee Engagement and Retention written by Nate Martinez-Wayman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Time Smart written by Ashley Whillans and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's an 80 percent chance you're poor. Time poor, that is. Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment. How can we escape the time traps that make us feel this way and keep us from living our best lives? Time Smart is your playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores. Author and Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans will give you proven strategies for improving your "time affluence." The techniques Whillans provides will free up seconds, minutes, and hours that, over the long term, become weeks and months that you can reinvest in positive, healthy activities. Time Smart doesn't stop at telling you what to do. It also shows you how to do it, helping you achieve the mindset shift that will make these activities part of your everyday regimen through assessments, checklists, and activities you can use right away. The strategies Whillans presents will help you make the shift to time-smart living and, in the process, build a happier, more fulfilling life.
Download or read book The Impact of Capacity Development Employee Empowerment and Promotion on Employee Retention written by Shahid Durez and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Employee retention is one the core problems of the modern era. As firms are facing difficulties to retain their best employees in current time, employees also have the best option for them to utilize their talent in different organizations. So in this environment firms have to spend a lot on employees to retain them. If one employee leaves the organization then it can become very difficult for the organization to immediate fulfill that position. The irm has to hire the new employee after fulfilling all the procedure i.e hiring, recruiting etc. Training is also necessary for newly hired employees to became an active part of the organization and sometimes after doing lot of effort the firm does not even succeed to get the competent employees so therefore employee retention remains one of the biggest challenge for any organization to retain its best employees for the longer period. In this case the firm has to increase the salaries of employees and other benefits from time to time, promotion and other incentive to retain its employees. Training and development for capacity building is also key figure to increase employee retention. So employee retention problems exist in the business industry. Apart from the government sector, in private sector employee retention is an even more serious problem as government sector employees are not easily willing to leave the organization because they have job security in government sector but in private sector employees can move easily when they get any better opportunity. The objectives of this study are to find out: How capacity development influences and helps in retention; how emplyee empowerment effects on retention; and how promotion impacts retention.
Download or read book Why Employees Stay written by Vincent S. Flowers and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manufacturing Engagement written by Lisa Ryan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are looking for employee engagement ideas, you're in the right place. It's no secret. Your employees' satisfaction level is a key factor in staff retention. With the high costs associated with your employee turnover rate, it's important to figure out your retention strategies now. Employee engagement is a widely used term, so much so that many organizations consider it cliche and don't take the concept as seriously as they should. There is a big difference between employee satisfaction and happiness. A satisfied employee shows up at work, does his or her job and leaves. On the other hand, when employees are emotionally committed to their employer, they are said to be highly engaged. Your employees are no longer working simply for a paycheck or promotion. Newer generations want to care about both their work and the organization they for which they do their job. Engaged employees bring in their full effort so that they contribute more to the organization's overall goals. Why does discretionary effort matter? Because it means that they are doing their job without being asked, lowering their need to be constantly supervised and increasing their productivity, levels of customer service, sales, profits, and goodwill. In short, employee engagement achievement is vital for employees and their employers. Face it; your best employees have the power to take their skills elsewhere. And that leaves your leadership team with an enormous challenge: winning the war for top talent! You need employee retention techniques that work. Taking an employee engagement survey is a good first step, but without followup action to connect with and engage your team, your survey efforts alone are futile. This employee disengagement trend reaches far beyond just manufacturing. The Gallup organization reports close to 71% of all staff feel unsupported, detached, or disengaged from their current employer. The impact costs US businesses more than $450 billion in lost productivity each year. In this book, you'll find many strategies to will help you experience the benefits of having an engaged workforce. Open up the book to any page and implement the ideas and strategies listed. Encourage and empower your leadership team to go beyond the engagement questionnaire. Find out what employees want to increase their satisfaction levels and then help them get it. The bad news is that disengagement levels have been about the same for companies overall since Gallup and other organizations started measuring engagement levels. The good news is we already know how to discourage top talent from leaving: keep them engaged. With an engaged workforce, employees work harder, have fewer safety incidents, and are more loyal and profitable to their company. Studies show that engaged employees have: - 50% fewer accidents - 41% fewer quality defects - 30% fewer health care costs Not surprisingly, unhappy workers return only 60% of their salary in the value they provide. With an estimated five million manufacturing jobs going unfilled by 2020, it's time to take smart steps to make sure your company isn't affected. That means creating a workplace culture that works ... based on proven results, fresh ideas and new ways of generating loyalty from your staff. Use the employee engagement strategies in this book to help your company be an employer of choice. Engagement techniques work - if you work them!
Download or read book Enhancing Success for Performance Management in the Public Sector written by Emmanuel S. E. Leigh and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Download or read book The Power of Stay Interviews Secrets to Retaining Talent written by Gerard Assey and published by Gerard Assey. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Power of Stay Interviews: Secrets to Retaining Talent" is a comprehensive guide for managers, leaders, and HR professionals seeking to improve employee retention. Stay interviews, conducted while employees are still with the organization, offer a proactive approach to understanding and addressing employee needs. This book covers the fundamentals of stay interviews, including their purpose and benefits, and provides practical tips for conducting effective interviews. It also explores advanced techniques, such as integrating stay interviews into performance management processes and using them to support employee well-being and mental health. Through real-life examples, sample questions, and actionable steps, this book empowers readers to implement and continuously improve their stay interview practices, ultimately creating a more engaged, satisfied, and loyal workforce.
Download or read book Federal Employee Engagement and Performance written by Howard R. Simpson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on both private- and public-sector organisations has found that increased levels of engagement -- generally defined as the sense of purpose and commitment employees feel toward their employer and its mission -- can lead to better organisational performance. Employee engagement is particularly important within federal agencies, where employees influence the well-being and safety of the public in myriad ways, such as by conducting advanced scientific research, verifying and administering benefits, or ensuring the safety of our workplaces, airports, and national borders. This book describes trends in employee engagement from 2006 through 2014; identifies practices in improving employee engagement; and evaluates the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) tools and resources to support employee engagement. The book also examines what engages Federal employees -- that is, what contributes to a heightened connection between Federal employees and their work or their organisation.
Download or read book Developing And Sustaining Employee Engagement written by Era Ruprecht and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee engagement does not mean employee happiness. Someone might be happy at work, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are working hard, productively on behalf of the organization. While company game rooms, free massages, and Friday keg parties are fun--and may be beneficial for other reasons-making employees happy is different from making them engaged. In this book, a practical, researched-based playbook that applies to any type of business with staff, retention expert reveals and discusses in depth the keys to increasing employee engagement: - Building trust with your team - Implementing stay interviews - Developing an employee value proposition - Hiring employees are self-motivated - Measuring progress and forecasting future engagement - And more!
Download or read book Psychosocial Safety Climate written by Maureen F. Dollard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.
Download or read book Investigation of the Effects of Employee Engagement and Affective Commitment on Retention written by Basel Al-Jabari and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's business climate, attracting and retaining the best employees are two major challenges to organizational managers. Two factors important for increasing employee retention are affective commitment (AC) and employee engagement (EE). This study investigated the effects of AC and EE (the study independent variables) on employee retention (the study dependent variable) using self-report methodology in a cross-sectional sample of 244 employees from the education, hospitality, media services, and technology industries. Demographic characteristics of the study sample were tested as moderators of the AC-retention and EE-retention relationships. Self-report data were obtained from an online survey that measured demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, age, ethnicity, level of education, pay type, years at current organization, and years of overall work experience), AC (i.e., employee emotional commitment to his or her organization), EE (i.e., employee engagement within his or her organization in terms of OCB, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy), and employee retention (i.e., the intention to remain employed within the organization for up to 5 years, up to 10 years, and through retirement). Results of this study provide strong empirical support that AC and EE are significant positive predictors of employee retention, measured as employee intention to remain employed within the organization up to 5 years, up to 10 years, and through retirement. The effects of demographic characteristics tested as moderators of the ACretention and EE-retention relationships also provide empirical support that an employee's years of employment at his organization moderates the positive effect of AC and EE on retention through retirement such that employees with > 15 years of employment at their organization report higher AC and EE. Additionally, the results provide empirical support that an employee's level of education moderates the positive effect of EE on retention through retirement as evidenced by higher EE scores in participants with more education. Recommendations are made to increase retention by increasing AC and EE. For example, recommendations are made to increase AC by promoting organizational citizenship in the organization, optimizing HR practices aimed at job characteristics (e.g.,flexible work schedule, compensation), and optimizing supervisor support and leadership style. Recommendations are also made to increase EE by talent management (e.g., HR policies and procedures that address employee performance, such as training), mentoring, and leadership style.
Download or read book Retention written by Peter R. Garber and published by Human Resource Development. This book was released on 2008 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts predict a serious shortage of employees in the United States over the next decade as Baby Boomers begin to retire. If retaining people isn't one of your top priorities, Retention will convince you to make it one immediately. Peter Garber delivers hundreds of low-cost ways to reduce employee turnover and provide a more motivating work environment - one that will make employees look forward to coming to work each day. In nine chapters, the book focuses on two challenges: How to keep employees from going to another organization and keep them interested and focused on their jobs. This book is part of the HR Skills Series designed to help managers plan for and manage changes in such areas as consumer demand, workforce turnover, and production and performance standards.
Download or read book Digital Transformation in Public Sector Human Resource Management written by Shava, Elvin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-07-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has created a pressing need for digital transformation in human resources management (HRM) in public institutions. Traditional practices must be updated, preventing institutions from effectively managing their workforce and meeting stakeholder demands. The lack of digitalization leads to inefficiencies, ineffective performance evaluation, and an inability to adapt to the rapidly evolving technological landscape. This gap between existing HR practices and the demands of the digital age poses a significant challenge for public sector organizations. Digital Transformation in Public Sector Human Resource Management offers a comprehensive solution to the challenges faced by public institutions. The book provides practical insights and strategies for aligning HR practices with the modern technological landscape by exploring how digital transformation can revolutionize HRM processes. It demonstrates the benefits of adopting digital technologies and innovative strategies in public sector HRM through real-world examples and case studies. The book guides public sector professionals, policymakers, and academics, helping them navigate the complexities of digital transformation in HRM.
