According to a survey by Human Resource Executive magazine, Employee Engagement and retention were two of the biggest concerns for HR professionals in 2010. Sheridan has identified the top 5 employee engagement trends in 2011:
1.) To clean up the aftermath of the storm, organizations will utilize their most Actively Engaged employees as mentors to help motivate and re-energize the disengaged.
2.) Now that the economy is slowly rebounding, more organizations will gain a pulse on company morale through Employee Engagement Surveys, department meetings and focus groups.
3.) HR professionals will start to devote more time and money toward establishing a strategic retention plan and understanding their organization’s key retention factors.
4.) More organizations and HR leaders will embrace social media as a means of not only engaging employees but also recruiting new ones.
5.) Multi-national “super unions,” which represent employees in multiple countries, are predicted to skyrocket in the coming years. In fact, more than 960,000 healthcare workers were members of unions in 2009.
