Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how training for team leaders has helped Engage Mutual Assurance, a UK insurance and investment company, to embed its organizational culture and increase employee engagement. Design/methodology/approach – Explains the reasons for the...

Purpose The paper aims to highlight the role of enterprise social media as an internal workplace tool for employee engagement purposes. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a viewpoint on how social media can be used internally by organizations after considering both academic and...

Purpose This paper aims to provide some bounds to the concept of employee engagement, explain how it links to job performance and offer a practical training tool, skill-charting (SC), that can assist a manager and her/his employees attain higher levels of work engagement....

Purpose – This paper aims to describe a new induction process at the Co‐operative Group which is enthusing recruits, increasing their engagement with the organization and its values and reducing employee turnover. Design/methodology/approach – It explains the reasons for the program, the...

Purpose – Explains how gamification can help to motivate employees and boost individual and organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – Defines gamification and provides some examples of how it can work in practice. Findings – Charts how gamification helps to engage employees...

Purpose The paper examines relationships in the workplace. It considers issues such as employee engagement, decisions to be in a relationship with a co-worker and its effects on commitment certainty in a sample of adults. They all said they were currently working with their romantic partner....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify the lack of specific HR policies in the Hellenic public sector; basically to present/discuss a variety of recommendations that managers and political administration could apply as key elements of an HR strategy aiming to manage...

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places...

Purpose – This paper aims to observe that strong policies on employee engagement helped the UK and international payment-systems provider VocaLink to introduce organizational change smoothly and win Investors in People (IiP) gold for its human resource (HR) practices....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to summarize recent commentary and research about employee engagement. It offers information on practices and suggestions aimed at helping human resource specialists and general managers to stimulate opportunities for employees to become more engaged in...