The Working Week: Jonathan Austin of Best Companies
This week, Wayne gets to grips with employee engagement in the company of Jonathan Austin, CEO of UK-based workplace engagement specialists, Best Companies. They discuss why so many people are so turned-off by their jobs and explore the critical factors that help to create an engaged workforce.
1 minute – Wayne discusses research from Bersin & Associates suggesting that the US is facing a critical shortage of middle managers due to a lack of succession planning.
1 minutes and 35 seconds – Meanwhile, the retirement of swathes of Baby Boomers is going to result in ascendancy of a very different type of manager. But organisations are finding that Generation X managers are different.
2 minutes and ten seconds – White paper from Attunity on management effectiveness.
2 minutes 25 seconds – Wayne introduces Jonathan Austin – CEO of UK-based workplace engagement specialists, Best Companies.
2 minutes 50 seconds – Wayne and Jonathan start by discussing new research by Badenoch and Clark which found that a quarter of Britain’s are not happy with their jobs.
3 minutes 25 seconds – What is the difference between happiness and engagement at work?
4 minutes – Research by Best Companies on factors such as office space and commuting and how they impact workplace engagement.
5 minutes 27 seconds – Happy employees are not as sustainable as engaged employees. Is happiness skin deep?
6 Minutes 45 seconds – What are the critical factors that help to create an engaged workforce.
9 minutes 15 seconds – How to motivate generation Y.
10 minutes 25 seconds – Wayne invites listeners to sign up to Management-Issues popular weekly newsletter.
