Employee Engagement & People First Approach

The cover story portrays the need for organisations to create an enabling work culture to influence the employee experience. A read on…

In today’s VUCA world of increased Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, change is inevitable. On the other hand, the business world is dynamic, complex, and fast moving to embrace change for the survival and growth of the organisation, thereby, enabling organisations to constantly evolve to achieve business transformation through profit and people.

A people first business philosophy is the core of business transformation to drive business growth. Organisations tend to create an enabling work culture to influence the 'employee experience,' which comes with the belief that people are the real catalysts for successful business transformation.

The people-centric approach

• Employee engagement – It is about improving the employee experience by focusing on the organisation's value proposition and evolving all policies, processes, and work practises around it

• Setting the cultural dimensions – It is about revisiting the organisation culture, setting the pillars of culture in line with the value proposition, and cascading across the organisation to the lowest rung. (For example: customer centricity, culture of reward and recognition, etc.)

• Bigger picture – Connecting employees’ work to the greater purpose of the business is one of the largest drivers of employee engagement