The EMployee Engagement Ning:
It's a useful way to look at the issue from the other end of the telescope - hopefully will help us get the engagement debate out of the old carrot/stick mindset, which I try to remind my colleagues is truly only appropriate for Donkey work. But let's not mistake that for a fundamentally different theory.
The point is, the stereotypical old Theory X organisation had one value for employees - pay. In keeping with that mode of relationship, they just brought their labour time in, and kind of acquiesced while the organisation figured out ways to pump it out of them. The model Theory Y organisation we're all in this place to create has many values for employees, which ideally combine to stimulate and satisfy our creative urges and help us make ourselves more useful, as a willed choice (btw, a self-enriching experience).
Primary among these values, I'd argue, is having our skills and experience recognised by seeing how we're able to contribute to the decisions of the organisation - that value transforms "the" work into "my" work, at which point you can expect me to engage all of myself with it.
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