Around 70% of employees nationwide are not engaged in their work. This includes from executives to lower-level employees. It also includes actively disengage employees that can affect others.

Based on the report by Gallup, a 43% increase of disengaged employees cost organizations approximately between $450 and $550 billion annually in the USA. This is a significant amount and businesses should seek a solution to this.

Employee Engagement Trend in the U.S.

Engaged and Disengaged Employees

Engaging employees will usually carry out their work with enthusiast and commitment. It will also positively contribute to their organisation. They are likely to drive innovation, growth, revenues, and as well as build new products and generate ideas. They are willing to go the extra mile.

Disengaged employees will usually have a negative impact in the organization. They are likely to skip work, demotivate coworkers, and possibly drive customers away. They are just putting in their require time and do what they need to do throughout the day just to get their paychecks. It is easy to only blame the employees for such a behaviour.

However, researchers found 50% of Americans left a job because of their managers. Thus, there are also to be blame for the low engagement. This is not surprising since managers decide what someone works on, how someone progress and often considered the leadership in the company. A manager’s actions will impact the lives of their team members.

“People leave managers, not companies”  

– said by a Good Leader

 

Ways of Improving Engagement

There are numerous ways to improve employees engagement by using gamification. You can learn more about gamification here.

Acknowledge

Employees will flourish when they always do what they do best and and are recognised. Determining a skill or talent of an individual that excel at can help a manager to position them in the right job to maximize their ability. When employees know and use their strengths, they will feel valued and enthusiastically commit to their work.

Gamification can acknowledge an employee by awarding titles, achievements and rewards when they complete a task. This can help claim external acknowledgement and encouragement for themselve. Hence, making employees more engaged at work.

Genuine Care

Showing genuine care and concern for their people is effective in ensuring productivity. We shouldn’t forget employees are human beings, that have emotions, feelings and thoughts. Treating them as one should be easy although many businesses fail because revenue is always on the line.

“Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans.”

– Meghan Biro, CEO of Talent Culture

 

Businesses can show genuine care by building strong, trusting and open relationship with employees. Gamification can enhance it by rewarding employees and managers interacting for feedback and queries. This will make a positive atmosphere where employees feel supported and engaged.

Improve On boarding

During the first 6 months of an employee in a new job, the engagement will be the highest. Due to employees excitement to be part of a new organization. However, engagement will dip slowly if the management do not improve the onboarding processes.

Employees are more engage when business on boarding process is gamify. If an organisation’s mission and purpose is important for employees to remember as guidance, employees may be incentivised by reading or writing it. This can potentially help managers improve onboarding process for new employees.

Conclusion

It is common for employees to be disengage from work when managers failed to do what is necessary. Therefore, gamification can help improve engagement with employees. If you are interested to know more about improving employee engagement and incorporating gamification in your businesses, contact us at Gameka.

 

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