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The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to find it online, to no avail.\u00a0 I found reference to it here<\/a>, on another blog, NumericLife<\/a>.<\/p>\n Everyone has a boss to deal with<\/strong><\/p>\n When employees were polled to pick New Year’s resolution for their managers, Source: Businessweek<\/em>, Jan 3rd, 2007.<\/p>\n I also found an online version of the survey here<\/a>, at Badbossology<\/a>.<\/p>\n At first it would seem just another funny piece of trivia: a source of amusement as we think of the HR professional rounding up people for the monthly group birthday cake.\u00a0<\/p>\n But as HR professionals ourselves, we realize it goes deeper than that.\u00a0 This is a living lesson in what has come to be known as Employee Engagement.\u00a0 While I\u2019m no big fan of morale building events, when people ask me what I miss most as a result of leaving a large consulting company environment to start a consulting firm of my own, I have to say that I miss most the sense of belonging that comes with being part of something bigger.\u00a0<\/p>\n Clearly, it wasn\u2019t enough to keep me engaged, just as it isn\u2019t something indicated in these survey results as something people are looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n But foretold is forewarned:\u00a0 Employee morale and sense of belonging is a critical piece of employee engagement.\u00a0 Address morale issues quickly and effectively: just not with a \u201cmoral boosting event.\u201d<\/p>\n Next week I\u2019ll talk about what I believe to be some of the specific things you can do to impact morale for the better.<\/p>\n About the author<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>Donald Glade<\/font><\/em><\/a> is President and Founder of Sourcing Analytics, Inc.<\/font><\/a>, an independent consulting firm specializing in helping companies optimize their HR<\/acronym> \/ benefits \/ payroll service partnerships through relationship management, financial analysis, and process improvement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The other day, I came across an interesting graph a client of mine had copied from a BusinessWeek article.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to find it online, to no avail.\u00a0 I found reference to it here, on another blog, NumericLife….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-engagement","category-work-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– 18% say ‘deal with workplace conflicts faster’.
\n– 14% say ‘be less of a micromanager’.
\n– 12% say ‘recognize work well done’.
\n– 0% say ‘plan events for building office morale’.<\/p>\n