Employers are more aware of employee engagement than ever before. According to Gallup, employee engagement has declined over the year 2024 in the USA from 36% to 31% over the last 5 years.
How do we move that needle closer to 100%? Luckily, there are tons of great resources out there to help leaders and HR teams learn more about employee engagement, and how to make it a reality in their own workplaces. We’ve compiled an ultimate list of articles, books, videos, and podcasts for anyone wanting to learn how to start engaging their teams, or simply to deepen their understanding of the subject.
Let’s get started!
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Books
2. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Paperback by Simon Sinek
3. Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve by Whitney Johnson
4. Building a Magnetic Culture: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent to Create an Engaged, Productive Workforce by Kevin Sheridan
5. Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey
6. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
7. Louder Than Words: Ten Practical Employee Engagement Steps That Drive Results by Bob Kelleher
8. Road to Flourishing: Eight Keys to Boost Employee Engagement and Well-Being by Al Lopus
9. HR's Greatest Challenge: Driving the C-Suite to Improve Employee Engagement and Retention by Richard P. Finnegan
Studies and Reports
10. Defining the World’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work
11. Effective Employee Engagement and Organizational Success: A Case Study by Maniam Kaliannan and Samuel Narh Adjovu
12. Employee Engagement: Maximizing Employee Potential by Gallup
13. 2019 Workforce Purpose Index by Imperative
14. The chemistry of enthusiasm: How engaged employees create loyal customers by Domenico Azzarello, Frédéric Debruyne and Ludovica Mottura
15. The State of Employee Engagement in 2019 by Glint
16. Manager-Led Group Meetings: A Context for Promoting Employee Engagement by Joseph A. Allen and Steven G. Rogelberg
17. At a tipping point? Workplace mental health and wellbeing by Deloitte
Articles
Understanding Employee Engagement
18. How Engaged Is Your Team, Really? by Amy Bradley and Sharon Olivier
19. If Your Managers Aren’t Engaged, Your Employees Won’t Be Either by James Harter
20. Why you should be thinking about employee engagement by Aytekin Tank
21. The Two Sides of Employee Engagement by Sean Graber
22. Applying Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to Engagement and Growth by Engagement Multiplier
23. Why Tenure Matters For Employee Engagement by H.V. MacArthur
24. If Your Employees Aren’t Speaking Up, Blame Company Culture by Hemant Kakkar and Subra Tangirala
25. Are Engaged Employees A Driver Of Business Success Or A Consequence Of It? by Jon Picoult
26. How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now by Daniel et al.
Making Engagement a Reality
27. How To Establish A Culture Of Employee Engagement by Mike Kappel
28. How to Keep Employees Engaged in the Midst of Organisational Change by Annie Teh
29. 7 Tips to Prepare Your Company for the Era of Remote Work by Ashkvina Rajendran
30. 8 Ways to Make Your Town Hall Meeting an Engaging Company Event by Annie Teh
31. Top 60 Employee Engagement Ideas from the Experts by Page Up
32. If You Want To Improve Employee Engagement, Benefits Need To Have Value—And Reflect Values by Naz Beheshti
33. Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little by Jacob Morgan
Empathy and Recognition
34. The Importance of Employee Recognition by Annie Teh
35. The Secret to Leading Organizational Change Is Empathy by Patti Sanchez
36. How to Lead a Team with Empathy & Kindness by Gary Vaynerchuk
37. Here's Why Recognition Is the Key to Employee Engagement by Gordon Tredgold
Factoring in Mental Health
38. Psychological Safety At Work: what do psychologically safe work teams look like? By Harri Kaloudis
39. How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
40. 5 Steps to Promote Positive Mental Health in the Workplace by Ashkvina Rajendran
41. How to Include Mental Health in Your Employee Engagement Strategy by Engagement Multiplier
42. How to Cultivate Psychological Safety for Your Team, According to Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson by Caroline Forsey
How They Did It
43. How Leading Companies Engage Top Talent by Salesforce
44. How Airbnb and Salesforce Are Leading the Way When It Comes to Employee Engagement by Adam Robinson
45. At Patagonia, exit interviews are rare—but they go deep By Lila MacLellan
46. How Do Ben & Jerry’s, Google And Facebook Boost Employee Engagement And Happiness? They Know Why by Stan Phelps
Videos
47. 9 Employee Engagement Archetypes by Sean Graber and HBR
48. Employee Engagement - Who's Sinking Your Boat? And Employee Engagement - Why Is Your Boat Still Sinking? By Bob Kelleher
49. Why aren't more of us engaged at work? by Jeff Havens
50. Stop Trying to Motivate Your Employees by Kerry Goyette
51. Employee Engagement Strategy by Kevin Kruse
Podcasts
52. How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience by the HBR Analytic Services Quick Take
53. Why Meetings Go Wrong (And How to Fix Them) by HBR IdeaCast
54. Starbucks: Howard Schultz by How I Built This with Guy Raz
55. Put Storytelling to Work with Soledad O'Brien and Dr. David Rock by Your Brain at Work
