Employee engagement is always on HR’s mind, mainly because organizations with engaged employees generate higher productivity, retention earnings.  If employee engagement is driven by leadership why aren’t companies investing more in creating great leaders to drive and execute the organization’s vision? Good leaders can contribute to employee engagement by monitoring the efforts of their employees. [...]

Organizations stress employee engagement for a variety of reasons. Some do so because it is easier to retain employees than to hire and train new ones, but an increased number of organizations are seeing the additional benefits to employee engagement.