Employee Engagement
By observation, there seems to be an epidemic of employee disengagement across the country. With the ever changing laws and rules in healthcare, employee engagement is so important in keeping up the morale of all employees, especially those who work in healthcare. In 2013, the hospital I am employed at enters a public-private partnership and essentially went from being management by the state of Louisiana to being privately managed by a large healthcare system. This event cause a great challenge for all employees involved. The new management team did everything in their power to keep employee engagement up throughout the process.
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This effort starts at the very top of the organization. At my place of employment, the executives and managers do “rounding” activities. This activity involves visiting all clinical and non-clinical areas of the hospital and asking employee about their work life and which areas can be improved. I believe this activity is great because employees must see the leadership is actively involved and vested into the wellbeing of the hospital employees. These rounding activities allow executives and managers to show off their human skills. According to Robbins and Judge (2009) “human skills are the ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people both individually and in groups” (pg. 8). Human skills are thought to be a combination of social, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Human skills allow managers to appeal to the human side of employees to generate creativity and motivation. Motivation was so important in the transition from my old organization to the new one. Managers had to have these skills in order to motivate their employees throughout the whole …show more content…
“Job satisfaction describes a positive feeling about a job, resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics” (Robbins and Judge, 2009, p.79). Employee engagement is about positive attitudes and behaviors leading to improved business outcomes. Employees should have pride and loyalty working for our organization. The managers from the new organizations were on top of keeping job satisfaction a priority. There was trust and transparency among all employees and senior management. Benefits and compensation increased, which was a victory for the new organization regarding job satisfaction. Also job security was not an issues faced by most employees which also contributed to increased job satisfaction. In presentation: lesson 2 it was stated that organization want their employees to be happy because it improves
By observation, there seems to be an epidemic of employee disengagement across the country. With the ever changing laws and rules in healthcare, employee engagement is so important in keeping up the morale of all employees, especially those who work in healthcare. In 2013, the hospital I am employed at enters a public-private partnership and essentially went from being management by the state of Louisiana to being privately managed by a large healthcare system. This event cause a great challenge for all employees involved. The new management team did everything in their power to keep employee engagement up throughout the process.
Employee engagement is an individual’s involvement with, satisfaction with, and enthusiasm for, …show more content…
This effort starts at the very top of the organization. At my place of employment, the executives and managers do “rounding” activities. This activity involves visiting all clinical and non-clinical areas of the hospital and asking employee about their work life and which areas can be improved. I believe this activity is great because employees must see the leadership is actively involved and vested into the wellbeing of the hospital employees. These rounding activities allow executives and managers to show off their human skills. According to Robbins and Judge (2009) “human skills are the ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people both individually and in groups” (pg. 8). Human skills are thought to be a combination of social, interpersonal, and leadership skills. Human skills allow managers to appeal to the human side of employees to generate creativity and motivation. Motivation was so important in the transition from my old organization to the new one. Managers had to have these skills in order to motivate their employees throughout the whole …show more content…
“Job satisfaction describes a positive feeling about a job, resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics” (Robbins and Judge, 2009, p.79). Employee engagement is about positive attitudes and behaviors leading to improved business outcomes. Employees should have pride and loyalty working for our organization. The managers from the new organizations were on top of keeping job satisfaction a priority. There was trust and transparency among all employees and senior management. Benefits and compensation increased, which was a victory for the new organization regarding job satisfaction. Also job security was not an issues faced by most employees which also contributed to increased job satisfaction. In presentation: lesson 2 it was stated that organization want their employees to be happy because it improves