Beyond Engagement: A Brain-Based Approach That Blends the Engagement Managers Want with the Energy Employees Need Wilson Brady G.Paperback

After twenty years of trying to get it right, precious few organizations have cracked the code of employee engagement. Why? Wilson calls "the engagement paradox" the more companies focus on engagement, the more disengagement they produce.What causes this paradox?As shown in this clear, concise, and compelling book, it is simply this: managing engagement turns out to be just another drain on the most precious resource in business today -- energy. Because few could have anticipated the unbending nature of what Brady G.

Lacking energy, they resort to quick fixes, workarounds, and reactive firefighting, thereby hardwiring depletion into the system.As a result, employees come to perceive engagement efforts as a management con game. In today's exhaustion era, employees are simply struggling to make it to the weekend. A high percentage of the employee population