Engaged Employees Not Important in 1 in 4 Organisations.

In a recent survey on LinkedIn, employee engagement practitioners gave their views about the key trends they’d experienced in 2011 and what they were experiencing going into 2012. The
headlines from the survey were:

• Practitioners said that levels of engagement in their organisations are moderate or low and over 30% said engagement has fallen over the last 12 months.
• The key reasons given for falling engagement were uncertainty caused by economic conditions and the impact of leadership behaviour.
• Almost half (46%) of those who responded reported that there is increasing pressure in their organisation to achieve more with less. And 30% said that their budget has been reduced for the current year.
• On the other hand 15% said that employee engagement had grown in importance in their organisation and 16% said that budgets had been increased.
• A worrying 23% said that employee engagement isn’t seen as important in their organisation.
• The key priorities for 2012 were reported as being:
  - Improving morale
  - Improving communication
  - Alignment with the company strategy
  - Leadership development
  - Keeping employees engaged in a ‘do more with less’ environment

It’s very worrying that one in one in every four organisations employee engagement isn’t
seen as important. Is that really true in your experience?

In the current economic environment it’s more critical than ever.....