Top 8 Employee Engagement Practices

 

Tired of doing the same mundane work in the office every day without any recreational activities that may benefit nature?

Are your employees no longer as productive as they once were?

Why not create an environment that engages employees and aids in the development of a sustainable business?

This article will discuss how you can use your employee corporation to build a long-term business. Read all the way to the end and apply these tips to your business to help it grow sustainably.

In early 2015, six employees approached the factory manager at the Unilever factory in Khamgaon, India, with the intention of starting a beauty and hair care course in their community to help local women get jobs or start businesses while also promoting Unilever's personal care products. The training centre opened in March 2015, after management gave the go-ahead.

Was this a step toward Unilever's goal of sustainability?

No. Even if you follow environmental news on a regular basis, you've probably never heard of them. That is exactly the point. This story shows how Unilever, along with IBM, Marks & Spencer, and BASF, is integrating sustainability into every employee's job and transforming a sustainable business model into business as usual.

However, there are a few companies where employees are heavily involved in environmental issues on a personal level. Consider the clothing retailer Marks & Spencer, which has sustainability champions in each of its 1,380 locations to ensure that each store meets all sustainability targets to the best of its ability.

Old Mutual Group, for example, has created a training programme for future leaders that includes sustainable development as a core component. The presence of such champions helps to make sustainable development relevant and visible throughout the organisation.

Corporate executives must lead by example in sustainability efforts because research shows that stockholders, including employees, are frequently sceptical of a company's motivations for participating in sustainability initiatives. Some people are only persuaded to abandon their scepticism and support such initiatives if they are convinced that the company is serious about making a difference. To put it another way, when it comes to sustainability, leaders' actions speak louder than words and play an important role in communicating company values to employees.

A company can implement eight practises to help bridge the gap between an employee's moral beliefs and a company's business practises in order to create a sustainable company.Let's talk about how to engage employees and build a sustainable business.

Best Practices for Employee Engagement to Boost Your Workforce

Without further ado, let's discuss some of the best employee engagement activities.

Define the Long-Term Purpose and Vision of Your Company

The first step toward resolving the conflict that people may feel between their work responsibilities and their personal values is to emphasise the company's long-term interests, which are inextricably linked with the good of society and the planet. For example, Unilever defines its mission as "making sustainable living commonplace" (a modernization of its founder's 19th-century goal of "making cleanliness commonplace").

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