{"id":43355,"date":"2021-07-30T09:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=43355"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:25:10","slug":"job-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/job-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Job Engagement Is Crucial to Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What does it mean to be engaged at work<\/a>? In what ways do engaged employees<\/a> do better? How can you increase your workplace engagement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Paul Marciano in his book Carrots and Sticks Don’t Work<\/a>, <\/em>employee job engagement is essential for your employees to produce their best work. However, studies show that most employees feel disengaged from their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is why job engagement is so important and steps you can take to increase your employee engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Engaged Employees Do Better<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Job engagement is an intrinsic, deep-rooted commitment to the job, organization, team, manager, and customer. Engaged employees work hard for the sake of the organization and because they feel fulfilled. Engagement buffers against short-term changes in motivation, like time pressure and equipment failures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To picture the difference between engagement and motivation, imagine that a team is working to meet a deadline. An equipment failure makes it impossible to meet the goal. Do they keep soldiering on trying to achieve the most, or do they give up? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engaged people do the first, motivated the second. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Engaged Employees Do Better<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Engaged employees tend to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n