Do you know what active disengagement refers to in discussions of employee engagement? As the Workplace Insiders blog writes this week, citing a landmark 2006 Gallup study, it is the share of workers who are neither engaged, nor unengaged.
According to Workplace Insiders via Gallup, actively disengaged employees "are not only unhappy, but ... daily act out their unhappiness and undermine their co-workers." Gallup has found that 15% of U.S. employees fall into this category.
How can you better engage employees so this category of worker is reduced or eliminated, so you don't have to suffer lower productivity from it? Workplace Insiders echoes Winning Workplaces' advice here:
- Develop a detailed intention to engage employees, and
- Devote attention to what needs to be done.
This means a commitment by leadership with the understanding that employee engagement activities represent an ongoing journey, not a quick fix.
How does the share of actively disengaged employees in your organization compare to Gallup's national benchmark of 15%? Have you done the research to know how many of your workers are disengaged?
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