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What drives Employee Engagement the most?

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Jason Brown

It goes without saying that engaged employees not only deliver better results, but they are the roots of a world-class company culture and in turn lead to happier customers.

Simply put, employee experience and engagement should precede customer experience. Even before you start caring about your customers, you need to retrospect whether those working for you are happy and motivated first and foremost.

How do you create a milieu in your organization that breeds a strong culture of employee happiness? While there are a lot of intricate factors that go into building employee engagement, it’s hard to create a process-driven approach for it. Because, hey, employees are, at the end of the day, as human as you or me!

Emotion is what binds an employee to your organization at the grass root level. Lively workplaces, constant recreation, enticing paychecks and stunning individual talent – you get all this right and you’d still be grappling with employee churn on a regular basis.

So, what is the most important thing you need to be doing for your employees?

RECOGNITION AND REWARD IS KEY

While recognition is all about respect, rewards convey the ideology that going the extra mile will be recognized, not just in terms of providing facilites, but also in terms of incentives. But why exactly is this system of reward and recognition important?

A recent reward and recognition survey by Bamboo HR revealed that 82 percent of employees were bothered by a lack of recognition for their accomplishments.

Hiring great talent is one thing. Retaining it is something totally different, and much harder. By constantly appreciating and recognizing good work, your employees feel a sense of belonging towards your organization.

And while money cannot directly buy happiness, it is like a pathway that leads to happiness and there’s no denying that. According to another survey conducted by Bamboo HR, most people prefer money to titles and other types of recognition.

What this indicates is that a flat hierarchy is something companies need to look at, implement it at an organization-wide scale. And having such a hierarchy facilitates your reward system as you have much more clarity of thought when deciding who gets what recognition.

Recognition is a quantifiable way to boost employee engagement. When you divulge an employee’s work in a way that makes that employee actually feel good, there can’t be a more effective way to engage your employees and drive employee happiness.

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