Creating "The Employee Satisfaction Revolution" is a Company Wide Undertaking

Derek Irvine at EEN has a great post up (Who’s Responsible for Your Engagement?) in which Bret Simmons notes that Employee Satisfaction is not something that resides in the HR department and is dispensed like paperclips.

"Here is my concern: if we send our employees the message that their engagement is our responsibility, we create the conditions for dependent relationship. Employees assume the posture of waiting to be engaged because our rhetoric and systems teach them this is what we expect. I think we should send the message that self-engagement is everyone’s responsibility. Employees and managers share the responsibility to partner with each other to continuously improve processes and conditions necessary for peak performance to flourish."


The post was sparked by "Venting HR Guy's" rant. (Or what would be considered a rant if he were not so utterly burned out.