5 Barriers to Employee Engagement

There are five possible barriers to employee engagement, including unclear understanding among workers or managers about what engagement is, management or employee cynicism about engagement, bureaucratic work rules, lack of work-life balance, and capricious management practices. 

#1: Lack of Clarity 

The first barrier is a lack of clarity about what engagement is. Some associate engagement with employee job satisfaction, morale, or even mere happiness. But it means much more than that.