In Three To See this week: Employee engagement, satisfaction and the slow ROWE.

I enjoyed David Zinger's recent post for the Human Capital League community; Employee Engagement: Just Add Spinach.  

Zinger makes some incisive comments about Employee Engagement including this:

"Engagement is about achieving results that matter to all. Ensure that everyone benefits from engagement and ensure employees fully realise engagement is not a management term for ‘sucking out more discretionary effort’ from employees."

And:

"Ensure managers realise that engagement is not an extra on top of far-too-many demands. Help managers and leaders realise engagement is how we manage and lead in this decade. We engage through co-created results, conversation, collaboration, community and high quality connections."

I wonder what he'd make of the strip below from Dilbert creator, Scott Adams?

OK, so employee satisfaction and employee engagement is not the same thing - although rating satisfaction may provide a means of engaging with employees and assessing likely levels of motivation, loyalty, morale etc - I just hope that this gag doesn't resonate in your workplace.

Lance Haun's post to the TLNT blog is my final pick this week. 5 Good Reasons Why ROWE Hasn't Quite Caught On Yet:

1. It doesn't work everywhere
2. The economy hasn't helped
3. Reversing decades of management practice
4. Employees love it for the wrong reasons
5. Ironically enough, the results just aren't there yet

Haun's post is a valuable contribution to the discussion on the "Results Only Work Environment" which I mentioned in previous posts in the summer of 09 and earlier this year.