Engaging Individuals: People Want to Help--Sustainability Fosters Engagement, Which Fosters Sustainability
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- Synopsis
- Highly engaged employees outperform their disengaged colleagues by 20 to 28 percent. They are also more likely to stay in their jobs, thereby reducing replacement costs. The statistics in support of investing in the engagement of your employees go on and on, but few companies take the initiative to move beyond the lowest form of engagement: enforcing mere compliance to the rules. In this chapter, sustainability expert Adam Werbach explains that engagement is broader than just an employee's job satisfaction and that developing sustainability at the level of individual employees can foster happiness and corporate sustainability. As an example of the effectiveness of integrating personal and corporate strategic goals, the author looks at the personal sustainability project he helped start with Walmart's employees. This chapter was originally published as chapter 5 of "Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto."
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.