Last week I was talking to a friend who works for a large organisation. We were just chatting about work and we found ourselves discussing the issue of communication. It reminded me that many of our survey results suggest that getting organisation-wide communication right for everyone is a careful b... [More]

The latest news blogs on employee engagement suggest that as many as 16 million workers face a pay freeze in 2011 and that employee engagement may be able to help soften the blow (You at Work). So, what does this really mean – where should organisations start? Longitudinal research has shown t... [More]

Despite the fact that there has been limited research on the impact of leadership on employee engagement levels, it seems intuitive that managers and leaders in an organisation would have to provide a positive role model for engagement to fully flourish within a workforce. It is thought that transfo... [More]

Clearly, we are not likening engagement to an outbreak of measles just yet, but apparently according to an article in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology there is some evidence that engagement can be contagious in the workplace. Apparently, emotional contagion, which can be d... [More]

It is interesting to note that many of the companies focused on improving their environmental performance often also show up on best places to work for lists too. In a time when governments are setting targets for reductions in carbon emissions and incentives for businesses to be more green it is di... [More]