Employee Engagement Policies: Does Anyone Have Guidelines to Share?

I'm an HR professional specializing in operations, currently working on creating a policy for employee engagement. Does anyone have a policy or guidelines for employee engagement?

Dear Vijay,

Greetings of the day. Please check these documents as they will be helpful to you.

Regards

I am glad to know that you are taking a keen interest in Employee Engagement. In addition to what Mr. Mahavir has mentioned, employee engagement is a continuous process to build engagement. This needs to be treated as a strategic initiative for sustainable growth by the senior leadership. Without proper buy-in from the management at the start, the engagement program will only end up as a good-to-have "health check" survey. A company's policies, processes, PMS, reward, and recognition programs must be aligned to engagement improvement. Companies that have highly engaged employees outperform their peers in profit growth, revenue, and EPS.

Let me know if you have more questions on this topic.

Best Regards,
Nishant Prakash
Managing Partner @ talentworks

Understanding Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is often viewed by many as an event management activity or a means of fun and frolic to break monotony. Therefore, the person in charge of engaging employees should have a fair understanding of the objectives and goals intended to be achieved by employee engagement activities so that they can take their job seriously. Handling disengaged employees is an important and significant responsibility because a disengaged employee may lead to attrition, underproduction, spread frustration among other employees, disturb interpersonal relations, and consequently, affect team spirit and overall team performance.

Objectives of an Employee Engagement Policy

The objective of an employee engagement policy should be to engage an employee's head, heart, and soul so that they not only perform the assigned tasks but also actively contribute to the company's goals. In my view, the objectives of employee engagement include:

1. To keep employees motivated to not only do their assigned jobs but also contribute to the company's goals.
2. To foster commitment among employees to stay.
3. To increase their productivity.
4. To cultivate a positive state of mind.
5. To make employees feel part of the organization.
6. To encourage employees to relate to one another.
7. To help employees enjoy their work.

All these positive aspects will have a synergistic effect on the company's environment, making it conducive to achieving goals.

Regards,
B. Saikumar
Mumbai

Employee engagement is based on trust, integrity, two-way commitment, and communication between an organization and its members. It is an approach that increases the chances of business success, contributing to organizational and individual performance, productivity, and well-being. It can be measured. It varies from poor to great. It can be nurtured and dramatically increased; it can be lost and thrown away.