Topsy turvy management, active dis-engagement and the return of the supervisor in this week's Three To See.

My first pick is Put Your Employees First, an interview with Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies Ltd, for Harvard Business Review in which he talks about engaging employees by 'inverting the management pyramid.'

Staying on-topic, my second pick, published by Gallup Consulting, is Employee Engagement: What's Your Engagement Ratio? 

The paper explores how top-performing organisations have adopted the systematic improvement of employee engagement as a core strategy to achieving critical business outcomes and suggests that the Engaged/Actively Dis-engaged Ratio has a significant bearing on this.

There is some interesting content here, including a comparison of the distribution of engaged employees in average and world class organisations:  

• Engaged: 33% in average organisations compared to 67% in those considered to be world class
• Not Engaged: 49% in average organisations compared to 26% in those considered to be world class
• Actively Dis-engaged: 18% in average organisations compared to 7% in those considered to be world class

Paul Hebert posted my final pick to the Fistful of Talent blog: More Supervision, Less Management is a wry reminder of the difference in emphasis of the two in which Hebert urges us to "Quit Managing".

I hope you enjoy Three To See this week.

Tags: confidence, employee engagement, engagement, Fistful of Talent, Gallup, Harvard, HBR, Hebert, loyal, loyalty, management, morale, motivation, performance, productivity, retain, retention, satisfaction, StepStone Solutions, Supervision

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