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Three years have passed since David Ulrich helped kick off the Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube insight and how-to shows on effective stakeholder management across the enterprise. He shared information on the business operating model his RBL Institute has developed to help human resources move from a sunk cost to a source of value creation. Ulrich returns to the EEA YouTube show for an update on his mission. ... [ read more ]

One major fallacy that came out of the anti-woke and anti-ESG campaigns over the last few years is the notion that stakeholder capitalism calls for organizations to get involved with political and social issues outside the purpose, goals, and objectives of an organization. This is a distortion that arose when the Business Roundtable made its pronouncement that organizations should address the needs of all stakeholders and when Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, declared his support for stakeholder capitalism principles without ever defining what that meant. ... [ read more ]

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While the buzz continues in the relatively small world human capital management community that the Securities and Exchange Commission will add several quantitative metrics to the recently updated SK-10 disclosure requirements, the SEC has its hands full with environmental disclosures. In the meantime, a recent Conference Board analysis of proxy efforts finds an overall increase in both ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and anti-ESG efforts, but a decline in support for both. ... [ read more ]

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A motion by center-right parties to water down the European Union Corporate Sustainability Directive failed this week in the European Union Parliament. ... [ read more ]

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This Enterprise Engagement Alliance EEA Linkedin YouTube show brings together principals of leading business-to-business marketing agencies who agree that marketing today is broken and share recommendations on how to fix it. ... [ read more ]

An annual study of US sustainability reports finds that the anti-ESG (environmental, social, and governance) movement has not had an apparent impact on the level and quality of sustainability disclosures nor even on the use of the term in disclosures. ... [ read more ]

This Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube show gathers experts from a European Union advisory firm specializing in human capital law firm, a leading US law firm, an organization of chief financial officers and a human resources expert to review the status of US compliance with the law. ... [ read more ]

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As the concept of audited human capital reporting as a marketing tool begins to take hold in some parts of the world, the risk of unverifiable ISO 30414 auditing claims risks costing unwitting companies significant sums to produce essentially meaningless reports. This article is designed to help organizations worldwide determine the value of the auditing services being provided. ... [ read more ]

It has always fascinated me that nations that pride themselves on the social foundation of a democratic system run their economic system like an autocracy. This is highlighted by the recent settlement of the five-month-old writers strike and United Auto Workers strike against the automotive companies. The enormous waste associated with these strikes highlights the profound failure of capitalism to reward the true source of value creation and the high price we pay for failure to address this obvious imbalance. ... [ read more ]

This Enterprise Engagement Alliance EEA LinkedIn Live Zoom and YouTube show on Oct. 12 at pm ET brings together principles of leading business to business marketing agencies to discuss the state of marketing today and if and how it can be improved. ... [ read more ]

The shareholders of the automotive companies as well as all their stakeholders will suffer a severe blow from the current strike, belying the notion that shareholder capitalism is efficient. Here’s how mature labor-management relationships can prevent such issues in the future based in part on stakeholder management principles and insights from two recent EEA YouTube Shows on the potential future of productive labor-management relationships. ... [ read more ]

Despite the retreat of some executives and organizations from using the term ESG (environmental, social, governance) because of political pushback, this survey finds that Americans do not share the concerns. ... [ read more ]

Two experts on how to design more meaningful jobs at any level of the organization share their expertise on an Enterprise Engagement Alliance YouTube Show: The Overlooked Art and Science of Job Design. ... [ read more ]

Here are the results of recent surveys from Edelman on trust and Mckinsey on the mindsets of different types of employees and how these affect costs. ... [ read more ]

The Enterprise Engagement Alliance’s new research group has developed a process to help almost any type of organization determine the cost of disengaged customers, employees, distribution partners, communities, or almost any stakehold... [ read more ]

This study by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement in 2008 analyzed 100 companies in the media industry, including over 5,600 employees, 269 manager groups, and responses from 37,000 consumers, and the financial results of the companies to identify not only the connection between employee and customer engagement and profitability but also the factors that lead to greater employee and customer engagement. ... [ read more ]

In March 2022, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance featured a YouTube show with three leaders in the Stakeholder Capitalism and related ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) to assess the state of the movement. Now 18 months later, we bring back two of the three panelists to discuss the current state.... [ read more ]

Unless another US human resource practitioner has earned an ISO 30414 professional certification that the ESM is unaware of, Fumie Nakoa is a first.... [ read more ]

Over the last few months, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells associates he is no longer using the term ESG (environmental, social, governance) and McDonalds recently reduces mention of the term from its web site. Does this mean the end of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) or a healthy focus on how a strategic focus on sustainability creates value rather than fodder for glossy corporate sustainability reports read or believed by few. Ironically, right wing efforts actually could reduce efforts to curb ESG could actually lead to less transparency. ... [ read more ]

The principles of Appreciation at Work, embodied in the book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, co-authored by Dr. Paul White, are now embedded in an employee engagement technology available through his firm and Incentco LLC, an enterprise engagement technology firm. ... [ read more ]

In September 2008, just as the world was entering the Great Recession, the Enterprise Engagement Alliance was conceived to promote a formal process for engagement across the enterprise. Its formation was based on eight years of research demonstrating the benefits of a strategic and systematic approach to engaging all stakeholders in the purpose, goals, and objectives of the enterprise and the need for a practical roadmap for implementation. We did not expect that the issue of stakeholder management could become a political issue or that the European Union would pass a disclosure law largely based on its principles. ... [ read more ]