Engage your Employees on a journey to Excellence

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Engage your Employees on a journey to Excellence
Bertien Kamping
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• Proper Selfishness

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Todays programme

• The nature and the importance of Employee
  Engagement at Nottingham University
• A theoretical framework around Employee
  Engagement
• Three (innovative) techniques that can be used
  with staff to improve involvement and innovation
• Generating ideas and inspiration for the
  development of personal action plans
• Experience how questioning skills can empower
  others

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• Vite - Rendez vous

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Start with the end in mind
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Excellence
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Employee Engagement
Digging deeper
Flavour of the month?
Old wine in a new bottle?
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Definition

• harnessing organisational members selves to
  their work roles. Engaged employees employ and
  express themselves physically, cognitively and
  emotionally as they perform their roles
• Kahn. W(1990) Psychological conditions of
  personal engagement and disengagement at work

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Engagement

• Energy
• Involvement
• Efficacy

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Scientific Management
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Hawthorne experiment
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1970s employee participation
Trust Decision Making Organisational
Effectiveness Employee performance Increased
productivity
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Mc Gregors theory Y Employees want to take
responsibility for their work, they desire the
opportunity for personal development within their
job and what to achieve organisational goals
Where is the theoretical glue?
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The theory of planned behaviour
Theory of planned behaviour, Ajzen and Fishbein
(1980)
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The theory of planned behaviour
Theory of planned behaviour, Ajzen and Fishbein
(1980)
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Perspectives on Employee Involvement

• Traditional versus Current
• Supplement Initiative and replacement Initiatives
• Direct, indirect and financial participation
• Employee involvement continuum

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Higher Education

• Personal Attitude need for achievement, sense of
  competency, sense of professionalism
• Subjective norm formalisation and
  centralisation work group influences
• Perceived behavioural control perceptions of the
  attitude of the organisation towards its
  employees, fairness in staff decisions
  advancement and pay leadership style

Thornhilll, Lewis and Saunders
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How

• Communication down the organisation
• Communication up the organisation
• Job design
• Financial Participation
• Leadership and management style

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Alignment with vision and values

• Raglan
• United Utilities
• Liverpool Mutual Homes
• LA in Yorkshire

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Conclusion
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On a scale from 1 to 10
Overall, how involved do you feel people are at
Nottingham Univeristy?
Overall, how involved do think members of staff
feel at Nottingham university?
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Creativity challenge

• Outrageous Opposites
• Building on
• Lateral thinking

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My vision

• Working in a group of three

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Reflection

• Defining excellence
• Benefits of involvement
• Formulating your vision