Source: People Management

Date: 29/06/2007

Keeping employees interested and engaged will help prevent high staff turnover, it has been claimed.

New research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that only 35% of employees are actually engaged with their work.

“Our recent research clearly shows how much management practice affects people’s attitudes towards their work,” said Mike Emmott, CIPD employee relations adviser.

“With only three in ten employees engaged, many managers evidently aren’t doing enough to keep their staff interested.”

Emmot said staff engagement delivered ‘business value’ and organisations should do more to ‘drive up levels of engagement among the workforce’.

The theme of employee engagement was the subject of discussion at the CIPD’s Annual Talent Management, Recruitment and Retention Conference.