Employee Engagement looks at the level to which employees are committed to the organisations and its values, and the level in which they are experiencing job satisfaction.

Employee Motivation examines how employees feel about their work on a range of dimensions including: pay and benefits, communications, learning and development, line management and work-life balance.

Organisations want employees who will do their best work, or ‘go the extra mile’, in their role. At the same time, employees want to do work that is worthwhile and to which they can commit.

Engaged employees are desirable because they deliver improved business performance to the organisation. Employees benefit from being engaged as well, positively associated with job satisfaction and experiences of employment.

• Business units in the bottom quartile for employee engagement have up to 50% more employee turnover than top quartile ones
• Those with engagement scores in the top quartile have 18% higher productivity and 12% high profitability
• Organisations with top quartile performance have earnings per share growth of growth 2.6 times that of below-average organisations
• 70% of engaged employees indicate they have a good understanding of how to meet customer needs; only 17 per cent of non- engaged employees say the same
• Sickness absence costs the UK economy £13.4bn a year; engaged employees in take an average of 2.7 sick days per year; the disengaged take 6.2
• Engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave the organisation than the disengaged. The cost of high turnover among disengaged employees is significant; some estimates put the cost of replacing each employee at equal to annual salary.

A Chartered Occupational Psychologist brings a deep understanding of human motivation to the field of employee engagement.

A Chartered Occupational Psychologist can work with the organisation to:

• Raise awareness for the benefits of increasing engagement
• Provide practical education on how to increase engagement
• Design, deliver and analyse engagement surveys
• Support managers to increase employee engagement

As a result a Chartered Occupational Psychologist can fundamentally improve the overall success of an employee engagement programme.

If you want to assess your employees’ engagement and motivation, or you believe that there could be improvement in engagement across your people, then contact Alison Price for a discussion.