HR Mansion

Employee engagement is the extent that an employee believes in the mission, purpose and values of an organization and demonstrates that commitment through their actions as an employee and their attitudes towards the employer and customers. Employee engagement is high when the statements and conversations had reflected a natural enthusiasm for the company, its employees and the products or services provided. People are the primary source of competitive advantage. If the people or employees of the organization can be effectively “engaged”, then achieving the organizational goals becomes an easy task. The widely- used term “employee engagement”, embraces two attempts of management- motivating the employees and focusing their commitment to achieve the organizational objectives. Employee engagement further emphasizes the willingness to help out colleagues at par with organizational citizenship behaviour. In the broader sense, employee engagement goes beyond job satisfaction, job involve...

Whether the teams within the organization are grouped together across multiple locations or they are virtual teams, and whether your organization has been managing this way for years or they are new to managing work for distributed workforce, it is important to regularly evaluate what is working and what is not working for them. The benefits of having dispersed teams are many, but the challenges that comes with it can be difficult to deal with if an organization is ill- quipped to manage brand, culture, workforce and technology across multiple locations. When teams are working in different locations, communication can rapidly deteriorate, misunderstandings can ensue, and cooperation can degenerate into distrust. Below are the common challenges faced by organizations in managing work for distributed workforce: