Managers hold key to engagement: Six steps to help them succeed       

The good news: American workers are two-and-a-half times more likely to be actively engaged in their jobs than their counterparts around the globe. The not-so-good part: only three of 10 U.S. workers are feeling the love.  
Those numbers are straight out of Gallup’s recent State of the Global Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for Business Leaders Worldwide: 30% of American workers feel they’re engaged in their jobs. That number is only 13% worldwide.
What’s worse, actively disengaged workers — those folks who actually can submarine an organization — outnumber engaged ones by a ratio of nearly 2-1 on a worldwide scale. Here, too, the U.S. does better. But we’re still looking at almost one in five (18%) employees who admit they’re just not into their companies.
And then there are the 52% of American employees who say while they’re not actively disengaged, they’re not engaged, either.  \
Some other tidbits from the Gallup report:
East Asia has the lowest proportion of engaged employees in the world, at 6%, which is less than half of the global mean of 13%. The regional finding is driven predominantly by results from China, where 6% of employees are engaged in their jobs — one of the lowest figures worldwide.
In Australia and New Zealand, 24% of employees are engaged, while 60% are not engaged and 16% are actively disengaged. The resulting ratio of engaged to actively disengaged employees — 1.5-to-1 — is one of the highest among all global regions and similar to results from the U.S. and Canada (1.6-to-1).
Gallup found the highest levels of active disengagement in the world in the Middle     


ANAMIKA SINGH  
PGDM 3SEM  
12/10/2013