{"id":44,"date":"2012-11-16T12:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-11-16T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T19:28:37","slug":"employee-engagement-racket-further-analysis-response-to-nikita-joshis-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/2012\/11\/16\/employee-engagement-racket-further-analysis-response-to-nikita-joshis-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Engagement Racket: Further Analysis (Response to Nikita Joshi&#8217;s Blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her post, Nikita brought up the theory of <a title=\"Employee Engagement \" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-10-05\/the-employee-engagement-racket#r=com-s\" target=\"_blank\">Employee Engagement<\/a>. In general, this is a Human Resources theory about employee management, which uses things like annual surveys to gain information about employees. The goal is to get a sense of employee\u2019s happiness within the company. Most questions revolve around company goals and employee satisfaction with the company.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45\" title=\"employee-engagement\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement.png 334w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Nikita explained, the main problem here is that these surveys are not a useful evaluation of employee opinions and knowledge. Answers may be biased due to incentive for employees to retain jobs, or just because different types of employees have different personal reasons for working for the company. Incentives are not aligned, which is the main reason why the surveys are often useless of ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>In answer to some of Nikita\u2019s questions: in my opinion, these surveys are very irrelevant because they do not reflect the actual situations and their contexts. Information needed would be much more easily attained through one on one questioning of the employees, using personalized questions custom to the company. Depending on what feedback the employer might be looking for, upfront approaches or inquiries are usually much more successful. Personally, I think that frequent inquiry is the most effective way to gain business related information about employees.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46\" title=\"employee-engagement002\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement002.jpg 367w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/files\/2012\/11\/employee-engagement002-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Employee Engagement Racket\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/2012\/10\/09\/the-employee-engagement-racket\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Joshi&#8217;s Post: The Employee Engagement Racket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her post, Nikita brought up the theory of Employee Engagement. In general, this is a Human Resources theory about employee management, which uses things like annual surveys to gain information about employees. The goal is to get a sense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/2012\/11\/16\/employee-engagement-racket-further-analysis-response-to-nikita-joshis-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15080,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vanoraguerard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}