Who’s Responsible For Employee Engagement?

A. CEO/Senior Management Team*
B. Human resources
C. People leaders & managers*
D. Employees
E. Everyone

Hopefully you answered E) Everyone …Yes ‘E’ is for everyone… but…

Caution: There is some danger in having everyone responsible for engagement in that if everyone is responsible, nobody is really accountable.

The key is everyone needs to be responsible for employee engagement; it’s just that different people (e.g HR, Leaders & Employees) need to be accountable for different sets of tasks.

Human resources needs to:

• Carry out employee engagement benchmarking research
• Implement umbrella strategies or Organisational Engagement Plans (OEP)
• Ensure that engagement plans are being implemented by people leaders (TEP) and employees (PEP).

People Leaders need to:

• Optimise the seven engagement drivers throughout their team
• Put in place Team Engagement Plans (TEP)
• Do Personal Engagement Plans (PEP) with individuals

Employees need to:

• Be responsible for getting clarity around self-leadership
• Do their own Personal Engagement Plans (PEP)
• Implement on-going self-awareness through learning programs and systems

All Less than 2% Time Investment

The good news is that each set of accountability tasks for each group should be less than a 2% time investment. (Click Engagement Responsibility Tasks Model image below to enlarge)