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19 Antiquated Employee Engagement Approaches Contributingto
Organizational Anxiety
uly 23, 2013 by David Zinger
(http://www.davidzinger.com/author/david-zinger/)
Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher of communication
theory who passed away 33 years ago, once stated:
“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to
do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s
concepts.” I have been thinking about that quotation in
relationship to employee engagement. The Canadian pennyis a
currency of yesterday and is no longer being produced but I thought
it 䍜t here to o䎅er my “two cents worth” on
outdated engagement tools and concepts.
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Here are 19 antiquated employee engagement tools and
concepts:
1. Viewing engagement as something that is broken in need of
䍜xing while failing to ensure that employee
engagement bene䍜ts everyone.
2. Using command and control to “get” engagement.
3. Believin that we need a lar e scale ro ram to move the dial
on en a ement.
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4. Using arcane surveys with untenable time gaps between
measurement and communication of results.
5. Thinking we can get a reliable and valid measure of
engagement with a once a year or biannual measurement.
6. Having senior management “retreat” to craft or develop
organizational strategy.
7. Telling rather than listening and not fully amplifying
employee voice.8. Conceiving of employee disengagement as a
punishable o䎅ence.
9. De䍜ning engagement as discretionary e䎅ort while failing to
acknowledge all employee e䎅ort is discretionary.
10. Squandering organizational resources on measurement to
discover that engagement resembles a typical bell
curve from very disengaged to very engaged.
11. Giving vital organizational data away to large consultancies
rather than using that data as the lifeblood and
vibrant source of energy for the organization.12. Believing that
we can ask people to do more and more without stopping other
things.
13. Failing to use mobile devices as an engagement tool.
14. Treating engagement as another fad or bandwagon that we must
jump on, giving it token e䎅orts, and
abandoning it just as quickly for the next fad.
15. Attaching the word engagement too tightly to employee.
16. Using anonymous approaches to increase engagement.
17. Failing to weave performance into the way we approach and
work with engagement.
18. Perceiving engagement as a pizza party, a YouTube video, or
a drink after work.
19. Failing to provide needed education and training for people
to act di䎅erent with engaging approaches to work.
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A score of nineteen is an impossible score in the game of
Cribbage. Are we making employee engagement
impossible with a reliance on the above 19 antiquated tools and
concepts? Do theses old tools and concepts make
you anxious about the future of engagement or our organizations?
What other antiquated tools or concepts would
you add?
In a future post I will outline contemporary tools and concepts
for today’s employee engagement.
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speaker and consultant who uses the pyramid of
employee engagement
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Booklet-Augsut-2012.pdf) to help leaders, managers, and
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Charles Rogel
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says July 23, 2013 at 9:20 am
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This is a great list of antiquated practices- I believe many
businesses are stuck in these employee
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engagement old ways and I look forward to reading the list of
modern practices you suggest.
David Zinger (http://www.davidzinger.com) says
July 23, 2013 at 9:24 am
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Thanks Charles:
Do you have any additional practices you would add?David
Sapience (http://sapience.net/) says
July 26, 2013 at 2:35 am
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The organisations which believe in increasing Employee
Engagement (http://www.sapience.net/blog/3-ways-
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key factors enhancing Employee Productivity
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Sarah (http://LinkedIn-SarahMiler) says
August 9, 2013 at 8:29 am
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Your 19 points hit the nail on the head! Great job – you’ve got
me interested in reading more! Thank you. I
hope to use this as a tool to show management that times have
changed and with that, so does the outlook
of the communication in today’s workplace.
Are you also in the LinkedIn site? Would love to keep up with
your communications.
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Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the note.
I am writing about the constructive and contemporary approaches
in the next 2 weeks.I am on Linkedin.
David
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