Everyone seems to be searching for the secret sauce to employee engagement and company culture. What does it take to engage employees, enable them to contribute productively to organizational goals, and create the conditions where everyone actually WANTS to be there? is only one piece of the package for the people who spend more time at work than with their own families. Care can’t just be in reference to the customer, and profits cannot be more important than people. People who feel appreciated, and cared for – not just as employees, but as human beings – will pass that appreciation and care on to the customer.
Nurturing a healthy culture is about relationships and bringing people together around a common purpose. It’s about putting people before policies and profits. It’s about putting humans first.
Remember earlier this year when all those corporate CEOs announced that there was more to business than maximizing shareholder value – followed a few months later by the richest man in the world was taking away healthcare for large swarthes of people at Wholefoods …. ?
The thing is – words count for nothing. Action is what it is about. And ‘we the people’ have just as much power in our hands than the CEOs … actually more — If ’we all pull together as a team’ !!
So true! Thanks for sharing!