Hi,
I ' d like to post the below message to the OB lIstserve. I understand that authored books are not usually posted but I think the topic of this book (employee engagement ) and the style with which it is written ( evidence – based management) , including a set of slides as the last chapter for introducing employee engagement to a company, make it of potential inter e st to the members.
Thanks for considering it.
Ben
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Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage
by William H. Macey, Benjamin Schneider, Karen M. Barbera and Scott A. Young.
It is with great pleasure that I announce to the world of OB the publication of Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage. The book was written by Bill Macey, me, Karen Barbera and Scott Young, all at Valtera Corporation, and is now available for pre-order from the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, and at Amazon.com. Employee Engagement is the result of our collective years of experience helping clients, and our research showing the validity of corporate employee engagement data for understanding and predicting both company-level financial outcomes and corporate customer satisfaction.
Our goal in writing this book was to provide a practical manual of insights based on real evidence for developing and maintaining a strategically focused and engaged work force, one that yields competitive advantage in the marketplace. In addition, we were especially fortunate to have our clients and friends of Valtera from several Fortune 500 companies share their companies' experiences for this book to provide the kinds of case materials managers and students find so interesting. Thus, the book is an excellent example of evidence-based management and should prove very interesting and useful as a supplemental reading in your MBA classes.
Colleagues who have reviewed the book for us have said the following about it:
"Employee Engagement walks us through the complexity of this deceptively simple concept and makes concrete the process of translating engagement into hard financial results."
Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"If you want to increase employee engagement to achieve your organization's strategic objectives this is the book for you. It deconstructs what engagement really means, explains what factors shape it, shows how to diagnose your organization current state and tell you what managerial levers you can use to increase it and consequently raise organizational performance. This book is at once scientifically sound and highly readable."
Michael Beer, Harvard Business School
The book has seven chapters ranging from defining and measuring employee engagement to the evidence for engagement as competitive advantage, and from creating a culture of engagement to action planning to make engagement a reality in companies.
I encourage you to learn more about the book by visiting the website at: http://www.valtera.com/engagement.html
If you have any questions please feel free to send me an e-mail: bschneider@Valtera.com
Benjamin Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, VALTERA
Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
1363 Caminito Floreo, Suite G
La Jolla, CA 92037
tel/fx: 858-488-7594
bschneider@valtera.com
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