POLS 4250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Joseph Nye, Employee Engagement, Motivation
19 Nov 2016
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Week 10: leadership through the power of influence. 90% of the companies polled simply ignore the problems concerning disengaged staff. Employee engagement ranged from 91% where leaders are rated as effective and 17% where they are rated as neutral or ineffective. Employee engagement has no universal definition: simplest is (cid:498)a passion for work(cid:499, goes beyond job satisfaction and motivation. Civil servants who admit to being bored at work were 2. 5x more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. Engagement is related to personality traits like adjustment, conscientiousness, altruism and agreeableness. Engagement may suffer as a result of process driven and hierarchal culture that does not recognize the value of leadership. Trying to make people happy so they will perform better is unlikely to work. The quality of one"s social relations is a far better and more robust predictor of happiness than one"s wealth: but personal wealth may play a role in making possible such social relations.
