‘Employee engagement top priority for only 26 per cent of biz leaders’

Only 26 per cent agree that their organisation makes EE a top priority, supports their efforts to engage their employees and works to engage them as leaders with another 43 per cent agreeing to some extent, according to a study by Dale Carnegie. The study further said 10 per cent actually disagreed that their organisation succeeds with one or more of those three elements of a culture of engagement. 

In May 2018, Dale Carnegie conducted an online survey of 450 employees in India, about half leaders and half individual contributors. Even though engagement has been front and centre for some time, there are leaders who still lack the basics of what and how to do it, it said. Just 35 pc of respondents said they know what to do to engage their employees and that their company has provided effective training. 

While 54 pc said they know what to do to effectively engage their employees, only 3 per cent admitted they don’t. Just 46 per cent strongly agreed that the organisation they work for has provided effective training to help them engage employees who report to them and 19 per cent were neutral or negative on the matter of effective training.