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This article looks at how organizations can maximize long-term financial performance through a strategic focus on their most valuable asset - human capital.

This article looks at the compelling research links financial results and customer satisfaction to engaged employees and channel partners.

This article looks at the eight drivers of employee satisfaction and engagement.

This feature article from Engagement Strategies Magazine looks at how AstraZeneca's internal and external engagement efforts have helped to make it one of Fortune Magazine's "Most Admired Companies."

This research article identifies several characteristics driving employee engagement, including employee satisfaction, and identifies organizational communication as a key driver of employee satisfaction.

Measuring the ROI on recognition programs is difficult, given the range of benefits and their long-term impact, but it can be done. This article from the Enterprise Engagement Alliance offers some ideas on how to do it.

Career management programs are supposed to help employees understand advancement opportunities and chart career paths with their organizations, resulting in greater engagement. However, research from Towers Watson reveals that employers and employees alike agree that career management programs are largely failing to meet these goals. This finding comes at a time when many employees believe their careers are stuck in neutral and say they would need to leave their employer to advance their careers. According to the Towers Watson Global Workforce Study, less than half of all employees (46%) and only 59% of high-potential employees – a group that employers should be working hard to keep – say their organization provides useful career planning tools. An even smaller group (42%) report that their employer provides advancement opportunities. Furthermore, roughly 4 in 10 employees believe they would have to join another company in order to advance their careers. Read more at www.towerswatson.com/en/Press/2014/10/career-management-programs-missing-the-mark-towers-watson-research-finds

This short article from Enterprise Engagement Alliance looks at the profound cost of employee disengagement and argues the need for and benefits from improving employee engagement levels in organizations.

This article looks at how organizations can maximize long-term financial performance through a strategic focus on their most valuable asset - human capital.

This article looks at the compelling research links financial results and customer satisfaction to engaged employees and channel partners.

This article looks at the eight drivers of employee satisfaction and engagement.

This feature article from Engagement Strategies Magazine looks at how AstraZeneca's internal and external engagement efforts have helped to make it one of Fortune Magazine's "Most Admired Companies."

This research article identifies several characteristics driving employee engagement, including employee satisfaction, and identifies organizational communication as a key driver of employee satisfaction.

This article looks at how organizations can maximize long-term financial performance through a strategic focus on their most valuable asset - human capital.

This article looks at the compelling research links financial results and customer satisfaction to engaged employees and channel partners.

This feature article from Engagement Strategies Magazine looks at how AstraZeneca's internal and external engagement efforts have helped to make it one of Fortune Magazine's "Most Admired Companies."

This research article identifies several characteristics driving employee engagement, including employee satisfaction, and identifies organizational communication as a key driver of employee satisfaction.

To the Founders of WORC (for Workforce & Organizational Research Center), good jobs are better for employees, investors and for all stakeholders. Her company offers a complete suite of services for not-for-profits, investment firms, and the companies they own to profit from her organization's Worthwhile Jobs Framework.

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