A Creative Approach to the Employee Engagement Dilemma: Larger Cultural Influences and New Theoretical Insights

Author:   Lisa Fisher
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781666926392


Pages:   146
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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A Creative Approach to the Employee Engagement Dilemma: Larger Cultural Influences and New Theoretical Insights


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Despite employee engagement literature spanning more than three decades, persistent challenges remain, and many seem to be permeating organizations from the outside in. Organizations invested in current structures, adhering to larger cultural ideas and taking cues from other organizations compartmentalize engagement as a people problem and relegate it to a space outside of normal operations. This is the employee engagement dilemma. The US macro-cultural lens focusing on individualism and meritocracy reinforces and confirms this approach and the logic underlying it. These cultural ideas drive scholars and practitioners toward ever closer examination of circumstances within organizational settings, and so the dilemma remains. In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Resignation, the employee engagement stakes have never been higher, especially for organizations with remote workforces. In A Creative Approach to the Employee Engagement Dilemma: Larger Cultural Influences and New Theoretical Insights, Fisher employs a symbolic interactionist lens and other theoretical tools to interrogate the current trajectory and make visible foundational cultural assumptions operating in and influencing organizations from the outside that delimit our thinking about and undermine engagement before it even begins. Equipped with these larger cultural insights, Fisher then revisits the engagement literature and broader scholarly offerings to pull in novel insights, applied research solutions, and new directions for future studies.

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Author:   Lisa Fisher
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781666926392


ISBN 10:   1666926396
Pages:   146
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: A Creative Approach to the Employee Engagement Dilemma Chapter 1: The Prevailing Logic About Employee Engagement: What Three Decades of Research and the COVID Era Tell Us About Employe Engagement and Remote Engagement Chapter 2: Foundational Cultural Assumptions that Undermine Employee Engagement and Applied Research Solutions and Directions Chapter 3: Earnestly Valuing People Conclusion and Looking Ahead Appendix: Discussion Guide for Undergraduate Courses (Theory and Practice) References About the Author

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“A vital examination of why so many employee engagement initiatives fail and a call to reclaim the human in human resources by integrating engagement into every aspect of work.” -- David Dye, Preisdent of Let's Grow Leaders and author of <i>Courageous Cultures and Winning Well</i>


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Lisa Fisher is consulting director and organizational development lead at a Washington, DC-based technology and management consulting company.

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