Newsletter Article
Member Benefit
Understanding Culture to Help Reframe Employee Engagement
There are three types of psycho-social cultures that affect engagement: cultures of control, culture of indifference, and connections cultures. And until leaders create connection cultures that make people feel like part of the team rather than unsupported, left out, or lonely, they will continue to be disappointed by the dismal levels of employee engagement in their organizations.
Thu Nov 14 2013
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would become focused on employee engagement. For most of my career, I worked on Wall Street. Along the way, I weathered four mergers and witnessed how the best-laid plans were often sabotaged by the failure to blend two newly joined corporate cultures into one. I found myself becoming increasingly aware of the importance of culture, and its effect on employees and organizational performance.