Engaging employees for the company’s success

In the midst of the financial crisis, most organizations are looking for a proven way to improve their financial performance. The likelihood is that you are as well, and there is a proven way you can do it. Kenexa Research Institute (KRI) studies conclude that there is a relationship between employee engagement and an organization’s financial performance. In the graph below we see that organizations with high employee engagement scores have two times the annual net income of those firms with low employee engagement scores. This data points to the fact that there is a direct linkage and correlation between engaging your employees and an improvement in your financial performance. Global employee engagement & annual income Source: Kenexa Research Institute (2009) You may be wondering, “What is employee engagement?” According to Jack Wiley at KRI, employee engagement is “The extent to which employees are motivated to contribute to organizational success,