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.

 

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