Employee Engagement

How engaged is your workforce?

How to measure – and increase – employee engagement in the workplace

An engaged workforce is more productive, with lower absenteeism rates, and with higher employee retention rates. And because engaged employees care about their jobs, they tend to provide higher levels of customer service – leading to increased customer satisfaction. These are all great benefits to an organisation, often resulting in increased profitability, so it’s well worth investing in employee engagement.

How to increase employee engagement

There are a number of factors that contribute to staff engagement and employee satisfaction:

How to measure employee engagement

Great – you’ve figured out how to engage employees. But how do you measure and report on employee engagement in a
meaningful way?

That’s where employee engagement surveys come into play.

There are many types of staff engagement surveys, including:

HR audits
General employee surveys
Employee engagement surveys
Employee satisfaction surveys
Health and wellness surveys
Change management reviews
Exit interviews.

Your full-service employee engagement provider

Our experienced team of HR experts can work with you to create an employee engagement action plan to identify the key priorities for your organisation. We can provide advice on employee engagement survey best practices, and formulate the best approach for your business. When it comes to implementing engagement surveys, we’ve got an ace up our sleeve: EMS Hub HR software. This features a People Management module, which takes care of employee surveys and so much more.

Survey responses can be confidential, but you’ll have the ability to create detailed reports so you can make good decisions on the next steps. You can even check on the completion rate of staff surveys, and run departmental and organisational rating reports. That way you can benchmark your own organisation over time, as well as comparing employee engagement rates between locations and departments.

It’s a fantastic option if you’re looking for employee engagement survey providers that have great software, as well as experienced HR professionals to call on for advice.

“We have been partnering with ConsultingHQ for a few years now and their team has brought a high level of professionalism and structure to the HR function in our business. If you’re looking for an outsourced HR partner to understand your business drivers, help you better engage your staff, and who genuinely cares, then look no further.”

Josh Hamilton, AFS