Two new analytics tools focus on helping organizations create more value through people. ... [ read more ]
A new book from Dave Ulrich and leading HR experts strongly advocates for stakeholder value creation, but places greater emphasis on leadership, talent, and culture than more specifically on systematic stakeholder engagement. The era of stakeholder management has arrived in HR—the question is: how thoroughly does this address more specifically stakeholder engagement? ... [ read more ]
The expanding Enterprise Engagement Index database gives any organization a practical way to benchmark how effectively they convert people, customers, and growth into measurable financial performance.... [ read more ]
Such religious and secular figures as diverse as Confucius, Mohatma Gandhi, Pope Leo XIV, Stephen R. Covey, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Prince El Hassan bin Talal, and the US faith-based capitalism movement have advocated for business principles similar to those of stakeholder capitalism pioneer R. Edward Freeman and others: creating value for all stakeholders may be both a moral imperative and a pathway to long-term business success. ... [ read more ]
The EEA is dedicated to providing organizations with as many free or low-cost tools as possible to enhance the impact and effectiveness of their stakeholder management practices. ... [ read more ]
If managers drive engagement, why does engagement remain so low? Research consistently identifies frontline managers as the single biggest driver of employee engagement and retention, yet engagement levels remain stubbornly low, suggesting that organizations continue to treat engagement as a soft skill rather than as a systematic management process.... [ read more ]
Research suggests that disengagement among employees and customers is not merely a morale issue—it can have measurable consequences for productivity, profitability, retention, innovation, and growth.... [ read more ]
The latest Enterprise Engagement Alliance analysis of the financials of 90 publicly held companies research using the Enterprise Engagement Index suggests that engagement, recognition, incentives, loyalty, and workplace culture professionals may have far greater influence on enterprise value than most organizations realize.... [ read more ]
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The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has create the Enterprise Engagement Index to help investors and management use easily available financial and company information to measure how well they create value through people. Although not created as a tool to predict future price performance, this mock ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) was created to test over time whether a potential connect exists over a three-year time frame. ... [ read more ]
A new academic paper by three leading corporate governance and executive compensation scholars finds that companies pursuing both financial and societal goals may benefit from hiring executives who are personally committed to difficult-to-measure objectives such as innovation, employee engagement, customer trust, or social impact, while simultaneously providing strong financial incentives tied to business performance.... [ read more ]
New global research from Willis Towers Watson (WTW) suggests that organizations moving beyond employee engagement to focus on employee impact achieve measurably stronger business performance, including higher revenue growth, profit margins, earnings, and shareholder returns. ... [ read more ]
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A review of 23 industries using the Enterprise Engagement Index suggests that the strongest long-term opportunities increasingly belong to companies able to combine highly skilled workforces, scalable technology, recurring revenue, and extraordinary productivity.... [ read more ]
The European Commission’s latest draft revisions would sharply reduce human capital and environmental reporting burdens, narrow the companies affected by CSRD, and create a voluntary standard that limits what large companies can demand from smaller suppliers. ... [ read more ]
Across the 17-industry, 49-publicly held company studies, companies with higher EEI scores generally also produced stronger Glassdoor employee ratings and customer satisfaction scores, although the relationship was noticeably stronger in customer-facing and knowledge-based industries than in sectors driven primarily by patents, commodities, or regulation.... [ read more ]
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Why the Enterprise Engagement Alliance created a public-data framework to evaluate how organizations create value through people.... [ read more ]
A new index based on publicly available data makes it possible for management, investors, and other stakeholders to objectively evaluate how well public and private organizations convert employee, customer, and stakeholder engagement strategies into measurable financial and operational incomes. It may even point to future opportunities and risks that affect share price performance.... [ read more ]
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In the wake of the 2023 United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, an increasingly important question has emerged: Were US automakers’ extensive stock buybacks a sound use of capital compared to investing in labor conditions that might have reduced the risk of a costly strike? ... [ read more ]
A new article in MIT Sloan Management Review examines why traditional human resources structures fail to address employee well-being—and argues that performance gains depend on integrating talent, learning, and benefits into a unified system focused on how work is designed. ... [ read more ]
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