When employees are engaged with their work they are more productive and make positive contributions to their organizations. So it is disturbing to learn that worldwide only one in every eight employees is actively engaged. While engagement rates were the highest in Canada and the United States, the level of disengagement was still in excess of 50 percent. So, David and Arthur Brooks’ advice about finding meaning at work could produce dramatic increases in productivity.
Source: The Atlantic, July 4, 2016.
Loving your job … is not predicted by having a college degree and is not predicted by having above or below average income,” Arthur Brooks said. “You’re just as likely to love your job if you’re making $30,000 a year as if you’re making $300,000 a year.”
INSIGHTS: Much of the solution can be found in Robert Greenleaf’s concept of Servant Leadership and it is transformed from a feel-good approach to one that delivers measureable bottom line performance indicators.