According to an article written by Tim Mohin, a director of corporate responsibility at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), sustainability is a driving factor in many companies in engaging employees and motivating employees to work harder and be more innovative. What is the correlation?
Mohin explains that perhaps these employees "see their job as their cause." Because sustainability and environmental stewardship is important to many workers, such workers are more engaged because they believe in what their company is doing.
And the results are measurable: organizations with high levels of employee engagement have 3.9 times the earnings per share growth rate compared with organizations with lower engagement scores in the same industry, according to the Gallup organization.
So how does an organization engage employees through sustainability efforts? Mohin's first recommendation? Green teams! Such employee volunteer-programs (such as the BLR Green Team) work to improve the environment within the workplace. The number of these groups has grown rapidly in the last few years, and some groups have taken their message—innovation through engagement—even further by involving customers in company efforts and promoting volunteer opportunities.
Does your organization have a green team? If so, have you noticed an improvement in employee engagement?
Prem Paritosh
PGDM-3rd
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