How Does Engagement Rank with Employees?

Over the past few years, our sustainability consulting practice has extensively discussed the value of stakeholder engagement and the alignment of personal and business incentives. This is a mindset that appears to becoming more and more shared among today’s business leaders. In fact, recent studies show an increase in talent management and business sustainability action towards this mutual alignment.

In 2008-2009, most HR surveys highlighted the challenges both companies and their employees were facing as a result of the economic downturn. The sever misalignment of incentives created a strain on this relationship and had many employees questioning, “is the grass really greener on the other side?”

Today, this significantly wide gap in commonality offers a business sustainability opportunity to organizations who know what can drive mutually beneficial partnerships with their internal stakeholders. Leveraging Aon Hewitt’s latest research, Trends in Global Employee Engagement, our sustainability consulting explores the business mindset shift occurring in a recovering economy.

“Employers in North America are putting together strategies in an effort to bring about positive changes that do not have significant costs associated with them. Primarily, these activities center on changing processes that are behavior-oriented.”

By regularly reevaluating and communicating new business models, strategies, business sustainability programs and applied sustainability concepts, sustainable organizations are able to respond to the critical questions now affecting long-term financial stability. Our professional consulting can guide your business through the process, media, and tools to identify and extract the most value from its direct and indirect relationships.