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My timing seems to be a bit off.
Yesterday, I wrote about 4 Ways to a Happier and More Engaged Workforce, and then Fast Company comes out with an article on just that – Secrets of America’s Happiest Companies.
Looking at organizations including Pfizer, NASA, Philips, and Adecco and further drawing on research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Globoforce, the article boils down these “5 rules of happy employees”:
Need that in even simpler terms? If you want to create a company culture and workplace in which employees want to engage because they’re happier for doing so:
These individual steps are fairly simple. It may even be easy to implement them with specific managers or in specific groups. But changing the culture of an organization such that all employees, at every level, are on board – well, that’s a bit of different challenge.
You certainly won’t solve that challenge with yet another local initiative or program owned by HR. You must create a culture that is owned by every employee. And the most solid culture to build that can feed all of these elements is a true culture of recognition.
What would you add to the list of rules for happy employees?
You can find more from Derek Irvine on his Recognize This! blog.