A Carrot a Day: A Daily Dose of Recognition for Your Employees

Do your employees have a commitment problem?

FITTING THE PROFILE

We found this interesting: The Global Employee Commitment Study shows that successful companies have different employee-commitment profiles than less-successful organizations.

As part of the study, researchers classified employees into the following three categories:

• Ambassadors. Employees who are fully committed to their companies and their work.

• Company-oriented. People who are more dedicated to their employers than to their work or career.

• Career-oriented. Individuals who place their careers over company needs.

• Disengaged workers. Employees who are not committed to their companies or careers.

Top-performing companies proved to have a significantly higher percentage of “Ambassadors” (45 percent) than did poorer performing companies (36 percent). They also had fewer “Career-oriented” employees (14 percent as opposed to 24 percent at poorer performing firms) and fewer “Disengaged” employees (26 percent as opposed to 30 percent).

What is your employee-commitment profile?