WEB SITE
New engagement web site unveiled
A new web site www.engageforsuccess.org goes live today designed to help organisations - big and small - engage with their employees better. It includes a series of case studies, tools and techniques on how to better engage employees. The web site is a “free to use national resource which will help leaders and managers take practical action to engage their people”.
Leaders from private, public and third sector organisations came together at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in London to launch the web site along with the latest evidence about the effectiveness of employee engagement, presented by the nationwide Engage for Success task force.
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At a time of unprecedented economic and financial uncertainty, this high-level task force, comprising some of the UK’s most recognisable organisations, is calling for every leader and manager across the economy to play their part in tackling the UK’s employee engagement deficit, which is estimated to result in the UK missing out on some £26 billion in productivity each year.
An analysis of the evidence launched today shows that only around a third of UK employees say they are actively engaged at work, placing the UK ninth in engagement levels among the world’s 12 largest economies.
Engage for Success is an independent, voluntary group of leaders, managers, trade unionists, engagement practitioners and experts who are backing the importance of employee engagement. The group was first launched by the Prime Minister in March 2011 and today’s evidence launch is a key milestone for them [E-reward news].
Commenting on today’s launch the Prime Minister David Cameron said: “Engage for Success is a movement that I helped launch last year to get UK workers more involved in the decision making of their companies and feel more passionate about their work.”
He added: “This meeting of leading companies and the publication of new evidence is an important step in achieving this and helping Britain to compete in the global race. With only a third of UK workers saying they feel engaged I encourage all companies to get involved in this important initiative.”
A final word
“As the UK faces up to the challenges of recession and global competition, improving productivity and performance among the UK workforce has to be a national priority and central to our country’s growth agenda. Leaders at today’s launch understand the importance of employee engagement to the success of their organisations, now and in the future.
“Engagement is also vital for individual employees’ wellbeing. With such clear evidence about why engagement matters - for individuals, for organisations and for UK plc - there is a huge opportunity to be tapped. That is why our voluntary movement is launching a free for use web site to help every organisation – big and small - engage with their employees better”. - David MacLeod and Nita Clarke, co-chairs of the Task Force.
Want to know more?
Take a look at the new web site at www.engageforsuccess.org.
Engage for Success is a voluntary movement committed to the belief that employee engagement is a better way to work. On 29 March 2011, the Prime Minister gave his backing to a new independent Employee Engagement Task Force.
The Task Force is supported by the Department for Business Innovation & Skills. It has spearheaded a movement that brings together the experience of leading practitioners, the ideas and research of leading academics, and the findings of think tanks, to share learning, ideas and practical guidance on “the what, the why and the how” of employee engagement. It builds on the report Engaging for Success, which David MacLeod and Nita Clarke produced in 2009 for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.