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The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has teamed up with TM Evolution, a compensation and work life people analytics company, to create a practical way for almost any size organization to analyze the impact of investments in all stakeholders consistent with the new European Union Corporate Sustainability Directive. Click here to view the demo or scroll down ... [ read more ]

A look at the history of the anti-ESG (environmental, social, governance) firestorm suggests a lot of it was the legitimate response to corporate greenwashing encouraged by corporate communications firms that failed to anticipate the backlash and the inevitable rabbit hole that opened after CEOs started speaking out on politics, social, and religious issues. Here’s an overview of what happened and how the damage is getting repaired.... [ read more ]

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The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has create the Enterprise Engagement Index to help investors and management use easily available financial and company information to measure how well they create value through people. Although not created as a tool to predict future price performance, this mock ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) was created to test over time whether a potential connect exists over a three-year time frame. ... [ read more ]

A new academic paper by three leading corporate governance and executive compensation scholars finds that companies pursuing both financial and societal goals may benefit from hiring executives who are personally committed to difficult-to-measure objectives such as innovation, employee engagement, customer trust, or social impact, while simultaneously providing strong financial incentives tied to business performance.... [ read more ]

New global research from Willis Towers Watson (WTW) suggests that organizations moving beyond employee engagement to focus on employee impact achieve measurably stronger business performance, including higher revenue growth, profit margins, earnings, and shareholder returns. ... [ read more ]

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A review of 23 industries using the Enterprise Engagement Index suggests that the strongest long-term opportunities increasingly belong to companies able to combine highly skilled workforces, scalable technology, recurring revenue, and extraordinary productivity.... [ read more ]

The European Commission’s latest draft revisions would sharply reduce human capital and environmental reporting burdens, narrow the companies affected by CSRD, and create a voluntary standard that limits what large companies can demand from smaller suppliers. ... [ read more ]

Across the 17-industry, 49-publicly held company studies, companies with higher EEI scores generally also produced stronger Glassdoor employee ratings and customer satisfaction scores, although the relationship was noticeably stronger in customer-facing and knowledge-based industries than in sectors driven primarily by patents, commodities, or regulation.... [ read more ]

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Why the Enterprise Engagement Alliance created a public-data framework to evaluate how organizations create value through people.... [ read more ]

A new index based on publicly available data makes it possible for management, investors, and other stakeholders to objectively evaluate how well public and private organizations convert employee, customer, and stakeholder engagement strategies into measurable financial and operational incomes. It may even point to future opportunities and risks that affect share price performance.... [ read more ]

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In the wake of the 2023 United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, an increasingly important question has emerged: Were US automakers’ extensive stock buybacks a sound use of capital compared to investing in labor conditions that might have reduced the risk of a costly strike? ... [ read more ]

A new article in MIT Sloan Management Review examines why traditional human resources structures fail to address employee well-being—and argues that performance gains depend on integrating talent, learning, and benefits into a unified system focused on how work is designed. ... [ read more ]

A review of Texas Roadhouse using the Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s “Golden Rule” stakeholder framework finds the company performing at a high level across most constituencies, particularly customers, employees, and communities. Drawing on company filings, sustainability reports, and third-party research, the analysis suggests Texas Roadhouse meets the threshold for a “Golden Rule” organization—while still facing gaps in environmental strategy and supply chain transparency. Click here for a list of all the EEA Golden Rule companies and leaders to date. ... [ read more ]

A review of 100 management consulting firms found 15 leading consulting firms that say they provide employee engagement, culture, and customer loyalty services—and a growing number highlight well-being—but only a few clearly define measurable systems or ROI frameworks. The gap between messaging and methodology remains significant, not unlike service providers in the area of incentives, rewards, and recognition. ... [ read more ]

A detailed review of about 125 companies across the global incentive, rewards, and recognition (IRR) ecosystem reveals a clear imbalance: most firms focus on recognition platforms and reward distribution, while far fewer are positioned to design engagement systems tied to measurable business outcomes. Next week: an analysis of the services of leading management consulting firms. ... [ read more ]

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Here is an approximate analysis of the cost of turnover at Starbucks and the estimated financial benefits of achieving a 20-30% annual turnover rate instead of 50%. None of this accounts for the disruption and unhappiness often created for managers, employees, customers, recruitment, and human resources. ... [ read more ]