In the HR business, we tend to focus on engagement, how it's created and maintained. Why wouldn't we? Well, perhaps we should think more about dis-engagement. Why - because we know that engagement lies at one end of a road which leads back to alienation and burnout. This was demonstrated some years... [More]

  It's not much talked about by HR professionals, but 'Job Crafting' represents a practical way to increase employee engagement. In a very recent article, http://bit.ly/zcYQuy, Tims, Bakker and Derks describe their own research that confirms that Job Crafting "... correlate(s) positi... [More]

You may have read about a large scale study of employee engagement conducted by the Corporate Leadership Council back in 2004 http://bit.ly/wFU8LM  The project involved a survey using 47 questions that measured the strength of rational and emotional commitment to day-to-day work, dir... [More]

As a fan of Harvard Business Review, I recently read an article regarding talent management; it was entitled, ‘How to hang on to your high potentials: Emerging best practices in managing your company’s future leaders’ (HBR, Oct 2011). The article started by stating that only 15% of... [More]

As a member of the Psychological Testing Centre, I receive a publication called Assessment & Development Matters, published quarterly. I am a bit behind on my reading (!) and whilst sorting through some papers, I came across an edition from 2010 which caught my eye. The article was entitled &lsq... [More]