HR Model to (Re-)Engage Employees

      
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		            		HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
			            
HR Model to (Re-)Engage Employees

	          		I have undertaken some research and written a paper explaining how disengagement is the principal cause of static productivity in the UK. The paper concludes with a new model of HR to re-engage employees, boost productivity and re-invent the need for more strategic HR.

Here is a short summary:
HR HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN FULLY ENGAGING EMPLOYEES TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY. If HR leaders do not change direction their future is bleak. A new direction should include becoming 'performance enhancers' working from the heart of the organisation, and:
Promote excellence and continuous improvement.
Ensure collaborative working and common alignment to corporate goals.
Reduce focus on transactional activities to concentrate on strategic matters which will ensure positive change in organisational performance.
Understand and recognise conflict and continually work with line managers to eliminate it.
Stop babysitting managers and instead ensure they have the knowledge and skills to manage people effectively.
Replace traditional HR metrics with 'commercial KPIs' which influence productivity and profitability.
Ensure all the contributors in the organisation are equitably rewarded for their contribution.

My full research paper is available if required.
				      
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						            	Pearl Cruickshank
Manager, United States
												
				                Model to Engage Employees

													Hi Hugh, I am only in my first course of Doctoral studies in business HR specialization. I share the... Sign up
				              
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						            	David Wilson
Manager, Canada
												
				                Engagement Needs Leadership

													Hi Hugh: I agree with your comments about HR not engaging employees.
I also believe EXECUTIVES need... Sign up
				              
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						            	Marl van der Toorn
Manager, Netherlands
												
				                The Role of the Responsible Line Manager

													As a business coach, I also see quite a few LINE MANAGERS who are incapable of adequately engaging t... Sign up
				              
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						            	Prof. Arup Barman
Professor, India
												
				                HR Model to Re-engage Employee

													A nice attempt to develop this model of HRM to re-engage employees. Once employees are disengaged, i... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Model to Re-engage Workforce

													Dear Professor Barman, I agree that EMPLOYEE RE-ENGAGEMENT IS A DIFFICULT PROCESS as an adversarial ... Sign up
				              
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						            	James Antwi
HR Consultant, Ghana
												
				                Employee Involvement in Strategic Matters

													The HR - model to re-engage employees for higher productivity appears interesting.
To find practica... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Human Resources Need to Be Facilitators

													HR is a necessary function, especially with all the legal and other requirements of a modern day bus... Sign up
				              
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						            	Richard
Canada
												
				                More Accountabilities Needed

													@David Wilson: Totally agree with you David, we tend to give too many rights and not enough accounta... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                HR Re-engagement Model

													@Ivan Kohlinsky: Agree with your comments on HR. My detailed paper recommends that HR PRACTITIONERS ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ahmad Sultan Abdulla
Consultant, Malaysia
												
				                HR Only Facilitates and Designs the Engagement of Employees

													Whilst I agree a number of local companies do not make much effort in employee engagement, there are... Sign up
				              
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						            	Rob Powys-Smith
Analyst, United Kingdom
												
				                HR - a Key Strategic People-centric Role

													Hugh, remarkably, this echoes the central premise of an email I sent a Chief Detective Superintenden... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Re-engagement Model for HRM

													Hi Rob, people are more than the most important asset as they, unlike most other assets which deprec... Sign up
				              
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						            	Youssef OUDRA
Coach, Morocco
												
				                Re-Engagement of Employees

													Thank you for the topic. My question is: which is more difficult:
1 - To engage those who already w... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Peer Recruitment by Engaged Workforce

													Youssef, my view is simple, ONCE YOU HAVE AN ENGAGED WORKFORCE YOU BYPASS HR AND UNDERTAKE PEER RECR... Sign up
				              
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						            	sugiarto
Consultant, Indonesia
												
				                HR Model to Reengage Employees

													Hugh, I agree with you. Your HR model to reengage employees is very important to enhance staff perfo... Sign up
				              
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						            	Adrian Sandoval
Professor, Mexico
												
				                Formative and Transformational Role of HR

													Dear Hugh. I'm a business ethics professor at a Mexican university. In my course I place special emp... Sign up
				              
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						            	duong
Teacher, United States
												
				                Create a Fair Working Environment to Keep Employees Engaged and Go Beyond Their Task

													No matter how many tactics you use, people will see through it and will immediately try to figure ou... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                HR Can Help by Feeling the Pulse of the Organisation

													@Hugh's method of getting real operational in depth company knowledge in HR by:
- HR placements 'de... Sign up
				              
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						            	ayman
Director, Egypt
												
				                Belonging and Loyalty are the Main Things

													I agree with Duong about treating people fairly for opportunities and also for accountability issues... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Attitude Surveys as a Tool for Re-engagement

													Ivan, ATTITUDE SURVEYS can be very valuable and I have used them in the past. Managers sometimes hav... Sign up
				              
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						            	Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
												
				                HR is the Problem

													The purpose of HR has developed since the 1960s to advance the agenda of the executive suite and to ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Isn't Using the Term HR a Bad Start as Regards Showing That People Matter?

													Tom, I used to work (a long time ago) with many colleagues who were still fighting the Vietcong (in ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Cesar
Teacher, Mexico
												
				                Alternate Model to Engage… the Organisation

													I agree with you all... But we are only talking of employees results. I know we contract them for be... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Employees ARE Engaged

													I’m offering a different perspective. Employees are engaged.
The problem is that HR looks through t... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Conflict IS Engagement

													Here’s my contrary opinion to #4 re eliminating conflict. If the company and HR believe in promoting... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Book: Principle-Centered Leadership

													@Cesar: There is a book: Principle-centered Leadership. It was written by Stephen Covey in 1990. It ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                HR as Ethnographers

													I agree HR’s new direction should include becoming 'performance enhancers' working from the heart of... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Stories as Pixels

													@HUGH BILLOT: I too have struggled with attitudinal surveys using Likert “strongly agree” scales. A ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
												
				                Gulati's 3P Framework

													Also take a look at Gulati's 3P Framework for Employee Empowerment and Operational Discipline, as it... Sign up
				              
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						            	Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
												
				                HR is FUNCTIONALLY the Problem: Renaming HR is Window Dressing

													@Ivan Kohlinsky:  As Lincoln observered, renaming the tail of the dog doesn't create a dog with five... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ahmad Sultan Abdulla
Consultant, Malaysia
												
				                HR Model to Re Engage Employee

													@Tom Wilson: You must have had some very bad experience with HR. I am an HR professional, and I neve... Sign up
				              
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						            	Tom Wilson
HR Consultant, United States
												
				                Process Theology

													@Ahmad Sultan Abdulla: Are you familiar with the phrase "Be All You Can Be"? Frank Burns was the guy... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Re-engagement of HRM

													Response to @process theology. The 'old ways' may work well today. I am a fan of Frederick Winslow T... Sign up
				              
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						            	Fattah Peiravian
CEO, Iran
												
				                Applicable KPI for Engagement

													I agree with you, Hugh. We are trying to find the best KPI just depending on engagement…
What’s you... Sign up
				              
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						            	Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Dissect the Functions That HR Carries Out

													@Tom Wilson. If Trump looked at the HR function, he'd probably look at the functions (and usefulness... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Engagement KPIs

													@Fattah Peiravian: Without doubt the best KPI is Gross Profit per Employee (i.e. before tax and any ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Gaming the Engagement / Performance KPI

													@HUGH BILLOT: Is it really fair to employees to have their performance based on a number they cannot... Sign up
				              
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						            	Prof. Arup Barman
Professor, India
												
				                Employee Engagement Through Communication

													Communication is deeply embedded in the culture. In any organisation, its culture has a strong conne... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Gaming the Engagement

													@Gary Wong: These measures are too soft in my opinion. If employers and employees want more and to d... Sign up
				              
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						            	Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Listen if You Want to Engage and Motivate

													“HR” mean different things to different people as we see here.
Many of the requirements stated in t... Sign up
				              
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						            	Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
												
				                Different Economic Paradigms

													@HUGH BILLOT: Correct me if I'm wrong but I understand you are coming from a Scientific Management a... Sign up
				              
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						            	HUGH BILLOT
Business Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Philosophy of HR Re-engagement Model

													Hi Gary, I agree with the general view that if HR practitioners through their work erode the role of... Sign up
				              
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